the United States Congress passed the Missouri Compromise. Before it was passed the Northern states and Southern states had different ideas of the states. The North wanted to limit slavery‚ while the Southern states wanted more slavery. Missouri wanted to become a slave state in 1820‚ but the Northern states wouldn’t allow it. As a compromise‚ Missouri could be a slave state as long as Maine was added as its own free state‚ thus the Missouri Compromise. Along with these factors a rule of 36⁰30N was
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The Missouri Compromise was a bad solution‚ because it did not solve the slave problem but it was also a good compromise because it lasted for several years and temporarily solved the conflict of whether or not the new states would be slave states or free states. Perhaps the more important aspect of the Missouri Compromise was the agreement that no territory to the north of Missouri’s southern border could enter the Union as a slave state. That part of the compromise effectively stopped slavery from
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Missouri Compromise In 1819‚ the territory of Missouri applied for statehood. It was the first new state to be taken from the land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase. The issue of Missouri attempting to become a state sparked much debate and controversy. The debate in Congress was mainly about sectional power and not whether slavery was right or wrong. The people from the North disagreed with the added representation in Congress and in the Electoral College. Since Missouri would be a slave
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What forces or ideas motivated and inspired this effort to remake and reform American society during the Antebellum years? By: Amber Daniel During the pre-civil war period‚ the Antebellum years‚ there were forces that shaped and reformed American society‚ making today’s society the way it is. Anti-slavery movements‚ social reform ‚and women’s rights movements were all forces that remade American society during this time period. The fight for women and slaves along with social reform forever
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The Virginia Plan‚ New Jersey Plan‚ and the Great Compromise was a big part of America’s future. The Virginia Plan was for a legislative branch. It placed the broad outlines of what became the U.S. Constitution. The New Jersey Plan was a Small State Plan. It was a structure for the United States. The Great Compromise saved the Constitutional Convention. This had to do with the House and the Senate. All of these plans have played a big role in the way that America is today. The Virginia Plan was
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THE COMPROMISE OF 1850 A little after the Manifest Destiny‚ the U.S. faced a series of troubles of sectional balances over whether or not the land acquired should be free or slavery states. The Compromise of 1850‚ proposed by Senator Henry Clay‚ included measures that dealt with the land acquired specifically from the Mexican War. Until 1845‚ it had seemed likely that slavery would be confined to the areas where it already existed. It had been given limits by the Missouri Compromise in 1820 and
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The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery state representatives. The compromise involved the regulation of slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery north of the parallel 36°30′ north except within the boundaries of the proposed state boundaries of the Missouri territory. In return for Missouri being a freed state‚ Maine was allowed to become a state separate from Massachusetts. The Events that led up to the compromise are not nearly as important
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The steamboat craze happened during the turnpike craze. It was started by an engineer named Robert Fulton who installed a steam engine in a vessel that became known as the Clermont but was nicknamed Fulton’s Folly. One day in 1807‚ the little ship churned steadily from New York City up the Hudson River toward Albany which was 150 miles in 32 hours. The success was amazing. People could now defy wind‚ waves‚ tides‚ and downstream currents. Carrying capacity doubled. Keelboats went up the Mississippi
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Asses the Constitution in terms of the compromises developed by the delegates in the context of two of the following: Presidency‚ Representation‚ Slavery. To the founders of the new American nation‚ it was important to make sure all states of the union stayed together. To ensure no states succeeded‚ many compromises were made in the ratification of the constitution‚ including those regarding representation and slavery‚ which allowed the majority of the population to be content and successfully
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called the Compromise of 1877. The Compromise of 1877 was a deal made by the Republicans and the Democrats. The deal was that the Democrats would agree to give Hayes the victory in the presidential election he had not clearly won. In return‚ the new president agreed to remove the remaining federal troops from the southern states. He also agreed to support appropriations for rebuilding levees long the Mississippi River‚ and to give huge subsides to southern railroads. The compromise opened the way
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