Missouri Compromise Of 1820 Dbq Essay

“But this momentous question, like a fireball in The night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union” (Jefferson). This is from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Holmes in 1820 talking about the issue of slavery and the Missouri Compromise, and Thomas Jefferson was afraid that the Congress may keep on compromising to satiate the south’s want for slavery. The people in the north and the south kept I arguing till the Civil War, whether slavery should be continued or if they should get rid of this abominable institution, but Henry Clay did not want there to be a civil war so he helped write a compromise to keep the peace between the feuding halves of America dreaming that peace would be achieved. Even though many people in the south of America through the Missouri Compromise of 1820 would be beneficial, it ultimately failed, and it only postponed

During this time they were several things that were happening. The Congress earlier passed it's the compromise that there would be a line which was named the 36° 30’ line, which slavery was not allowed to cross but Missouri wanted to enter the Union as a slave state. Is there anywhere to route to enter the slave state north. This was unfair to the northerners because the addition of Missouri as a slave state would unbalance the seats in Congress, so Maine wanted to enter the country as a free state, but they were not able to get enough votes until March 4 and it was entered as the second half of the Missouri compromise as part of the Missouri Compromise but Maine did not want to be included in the compromise. A man who lived in Maine wrote a poem about how main should not participate in the compromise because it was unhealthy and that they should just be allowed to become a free state, but even with their attempts main was still entered as the second half of the Missouri