The compromise of 1850 was the opening for the 1850’s, slavery was the main focus throughout. As the books explain the south was a heavy favorite for keeping slavey, and the North were the “heroes” they were the ones who wanted to abolish slavery and emancipate the slaves. Harriet beecher stowe is the lady who wrote the best selling anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s cabin, this novel was so controversial that Abraham Lincoln called her “the little lady who made this great war”. “ Politically, slavery was the biggest problem during the 1850’s and everything revolved around the issue of slavery. Socially slavery caused this rebellious controversy between the North and South. The Compromise of 1850 was an agreement that was made to defuse the crisis over slavery. Thus the issue of slavery in fact had the biggest impact that eventually led to the outbreak of the Civil War.”
Henry Clay was the one who introduced The Compromise of 1850 into Congress. The Compromise of 1850 was the an agreement that attempted to defuse the crisis of slavery. California asked and was granted permission to go into the Union as a free state. This event created an uneven balance between the free and slave states. As a resolution the southerners were pleased when the fugitive law was passed, because any slave that escaped was required to be returned to
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The reason for this was because fugitive law. The fugitive law enforced the fleeing slaves therefore they could not testify in their own behalf, and they were denied a jury trail. The commissioner who handled the case of fugitive slaves would receive five dollars if the runaway slave was freed and ten dollars if they were not. This practice strongly resembled a bribe. Lastly the freedom living northerners helped the slave to escape was liable to heavy fines and jail