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American Identity Dbq

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During the 19th century, the population of the United States of America was growing rapidly, and more and more Americans started to move west. Even though the American Identity was a strong as ever, there was still strife within the country. The Northern states and the Southern states had very different economical, political, and social aspects of life, leading to the two sides of the United States to disagree with each other. While the North supported Hamilton’s ideas of a strong central government and an economy that focused on manufacturing, the South favored Jefferson’s idea of stronger states’ rights and an economy that focused on agriculture. When Jefferson was president, he bought the Louisiana Territory, even though he believed in a …show more content…

The Southern states even threatened to secede because of the differences in opinion on slavery. To prevent this, Congress passed the Missouri Compromise in 1820. Missouri joined the Union as a slave state, but in exchange, Maine was admitted as a free state. In addition, all states and lands north of the 36°30’ parallel would be free (except for Missouri). This ‘compromise’ somehow managed to hold America together, but no one was really satisfied. The Northerners were upset about how Congress was allowing slavery to spread below the 36th parallel, and the Southerners were upset about how the government could have the power to make laws about …show more content…

Clay’s compromise fell through, because he attempted to force all of his ideas into one package. Later on in the year, Douglas managed to pass Clay’s compromise, albeit slightly altered. The goal of the compromise was to settle the conflict about slavery, but it only helped to push back the inevitable. Many Southerners were upset about how California was allowed into the Union as a free state, upsetting the balance of free vs slave states. Utah and New Mexico were allowed to chose whether or not they would become slave states (using popular sovereignty), only highlighting Douglas’s wishy-washy attitude about slavery. Slave trade was also abolished in the Capital, but slavery was not. The part of the compromise that upset the Northerns the most was the new Fugitive Slave Act. Fugitive Slaves no longer could have a jury trial, unless it was a special case. Many Northerners refused to listen to the act, and the abolitionists’ spirit only grew brighter and brighter in the

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was a kind of an agreement between the two sides (the pro and the anti-slavery sections) with the purpose of regulating slavery in the western territories. Excluding Missouri, this settlement banned slavery in the new states of the Arkansas territory. The Missouri Compromise recognized that the Congress had no right to impose over states claiming admission to the union conditions that dit not call to those states already in the union and also established a precedent for the relegation of slavery from public territory obtained after the Constitution. After the admission of Missouri in 1821, there were no states admitted until 1836 when Arkansas became a slave state and followed by Michigan which became a free

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Before the South‘s secession the Missouri compromise helped a lot in keeping balance. After Missouri requested to be a slave state to the Union, Congress knew that it would cause an uproar between states that were and weren‘t slave oriented. Due to this, the Congress created the Missouri compromise to keep balance between everybody. On May 3, 1920 the compromise was put in place which meant that it set Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state still creating perfect balance. As the Missouri compromise was in place it was condemned by plenty of Southerners but even with that it lasted and kept peace with everyone as well as help keep the Union together for more than thirty years.

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These attempts at compromise and keeping the Union together, while working for a time being, were not properly enforced, and they always seemed to anger one side. The Missouri Compromise was one of the first controversial compromises that encountered the issue of expanding slavery. While Henry Clay created the majority of the two-part resolution, which stated that Missouri would enter the U.S. as a slave state while Maine would enter as a free state and that “slavery was to be excluded from all new states in the Louisiana Purchase north of the southern boundary of Missouri” (U.S. History, 2008-2014), many people viewed the comprise as being extremely flawed. While the Compromise

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