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    Compromise * Missouri Compromise (1820) -It didn’t allow slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north except Missouri. Allowed Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. * Compromise of 1850 ( 1850) - Admit California as a free state; uphold popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah; Includes Fugitive Slave Act; Settles Texas/New Mexico border disputes; Ban slave trade in Washington D.C * Kansas Nebraska Act (1854) - Divide the Kansas territory into Kansas

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    The Missouri Compromise was created in 1820 to put an end to the conflict between the slave and non-slave states‚ however‚ it only caused the conflict to worsen. The dispute began to get worse and worse‚ eventually making the sectionalism between the North and South increase. The Missouri Compromise ignited sectionalism within the United States‚ which further contributed to a terrible War. In 1820‚ Missouri was petitioning to become a slave state‚ however‚ the imbalance of power in the south was

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    The collection of documents about the Missouri Compromise in 1820 offer a rare insight into the significance of the changes to American society in the first part of the 19th century.  • How did Thomas Jefferson understand the debate over Missouri and slavery?  What‚ in his opinion‚ was the significance of the controversy? o What was his opinion of the resolution to the controversy?  Thomas Jefferson understood the debate over Missouri and slavery as a “momentous question” (Jefferson). Jefferson uses

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    The Missouri Compromise‚ in many ways made political conditions worse between the North and South. For a long time the North and South had been fighting about political issues such as slavery. The North believed that it was wrong to capture‚ enslave and ship Africans to America to work in harsh conditions for free for White owners. The South‚ on the other hand believed slavery was right and should be used for helping the economy and producing cash crops so the North could use the supplies to make

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    of the time‚ compromise helps stop a fight from starting and is generally a way to end a fight. However‚ the Civil War was only delayed by compromise because both sides didn’t want to give anything up. Compromise’s role in delaying the Civil War was keeping both the North and South happy‚ but it didn’t help. The Missouri Compromise was a good plan in theory. It made one state a slave state and another state free. It alternated between the two to keep it even. The Missouri Compromise made Missouri

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    constitution banned the slavery. Henry Clay worked to make a compromise that would both satisfy the South and the North. With the support of Daniel Webster‚ a powerful senator of Massachusetts‚ Henry Clay presented to the Senate a series of resolutions later called The Compromise of 1850. In order to appease North‚ the compromise regulated that California be admitted to the Union as a free state. To please the South‚ the compromise proposed a new and more effective fugitive slave law. To appease

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    From 1800 to 1850 territorial expansion tore the United States apart. Territorial expansion itself was not a debated issue. Spurred by the concept of Manifest Destiny‚ almost everyone believed that America should extend from sea to shining sea and maybe even farther. But it was the issue of the expansion of slavery into the new territories that pitted the North against the South and split our nation apart. The first real crisis over territorial expansion took place in 1819-1821 over the admission

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    The three-fifths compromise was system in between the states to determine a person who is enslaved as a three-fifths of a person. The south was overpopulated and continued to grow due to slavery James Wilson proposed this in 1787 and this showed how proslavery was forced during those times. Because the Virginia Plan was denied‚ the three-fifths compromise was suggested and made the cut for the south to be powerfully represented in the House of Representatives and have too much power when electing

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    declaring its independence from Britain‚ America has developed on the foundation of compromise. Upon the drafting of the Constitution‚ the Founding Fathers were succumbed to compromise in order to incorporate the needs of the different parts of the nation. During the early eighteenth century‚ Americans achieved reconciliation of political disputes‚ predominately between the North and the South‚ through compromise. By 1860 this was no longer feasible and the nation was faced with disheartening threats

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    Compare and Contrast The Compromise Measures p.1 To compare the articles that is titled William Henry Seward’s Higher Law Speech‚ The Clay Compromise Measures‚ and On the Clay Compromise. They all have one main goal that is to plead their cases to the senators. In the Clay Compromise Measures was the subject of slavery‚ would tear up the Union. So John Calhoun told them they need to keep the parties of the South the Whigs and the Democrats agreeing and not weaken. It doesn’t mean that

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