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Social Tension Dbq

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Emme DiPasquale Period 2
APUSH D’Amico

The social tension between the North and the South had ultimately divided the United States in ways that threatened the Union. Seeking compromise, the United States went forth with the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850, but this did not prevent what began in 1861, the Civil War. Slavery was a large aspect to the reason of the split between the North and South, as the North disagreed with slavery and fought for it to end, while the South favored slavery and fought for it to stay in the United States. The Compromise of 1820, also known as the Missouri Compromise, was created to attempt to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states. Along with …show more content…

The most controversial bill was the Fugitive Slave Act. The Fugitive Slave act outraged Northern abolitionists as it led to enactment of Personal Liberty Laws to protect African Americans, writing of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and led to an increase in the activity of the Underground Railroad. The Kansas and Nebraska territories we set to decide to choose their own obligations on slavery, as they were above the “Thirty-Six, Thirty” line. After the bill was passed, the chances of unity were nearly unreachable. Slavery was a major conflict in the United States and overall divided what was once a united nation. Although the two compromises greatly attempted to make a change in America, a change for the better. These two compromises, despite the fact they attempted to fix the issue, ultimately made no resolution to the problem, but only stalled it and potentially made the issue

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Before the Civil War, Americans tried to resolve their differences between free states and slave states by enacting compromises. The Missouri Compromise and the three-fifths compromise were temporary solutions used to keep the south happy in hopes that they wouldn’t secede. These compromises failed because neither the free states, nor the slave states where happy with the compromise. The failure of these compromises were what led to a war between the north and South.

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In the era before the Civil War America was expanding westward. The Louisiana Purchase and other lands gained help to give America new land to expand on, but this leaded to issues with the division of free and slave states. As Missouri became a state they wanted to become a slave state, which caused trouble. In order to keep equilibrium between the states, Congress came up with the Missouri Compromise of 1820.The Missouri Compromise made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state. The Treaty also made a line within the Louisiana Territory to keep slavery from moving up the

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Uncompromising differences between the South (Confederacy) and the North (Union) created a civil war that lasted five years. During this war, Abraham Lincoln was president. His election led to the secession of many Southern states. After refusing to recognize the Confederacy as its own nation, the American Civil War commenced in 1861. The three main causes of the Civil War between the North and the South were industrial and agricultural economies, politics, and slavery.

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The Compromise of 1850 was an attempt by the U.S Congress to settle divisive issues between the North and South, including slavery expansion, apprehension in the North of fugitive slaves, and slavery in the District of Columbia. The Compromise of 1850 failed because Senator John C. Calhoun from the South and Senator William Seward from the North could not agree on what Henry Clay was putting down. Part of the compromise was to make California a slavery free state which benefits the North, and enforcing a stricter fugitive slave law which benefits the South. Both the North and South opposed what the other was benefiting from. What sparked the failure of the Compromise was the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.

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Previous to the compromise, the northern states held a majority in the House of Representatives and an equal count in the Senate. The south feared that the addition of Missouri as a free state would give northern states the power to outlaw slavery. Ultimately, the south was able to maintain the former political balance in the Congress. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 temporarily settled differences between the regions but could not prevent the inevitable outbreak of the Civil War. An unintentional consequence of another act, the Louisiana Purchase,

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How the Civil War Came to Be Was the Civil War very “civil” at all? The Civil War had many factors that led into it but there was one major factor that started the war. Slavery was one of the biggest factors in the Civil War. There was a big issue that divided the North and South which was slavery. The wide spread of slavery was a big deal to most Americans; but some were not the biggest fans of the concept.

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Compromise, a resolution of a conflict that is achieved only if both sides come to a mutual conscientious, was used to terminate political conflicts. The North and South relied heavily on this aspect since they had two distinct perspectives regarding slavery. However, compromise did not have the great effect as it was visioned because it furthered tension between the North and South by rewarding the South fully with slavery. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 initially was seen as just because there was a 36°30 N line established to balance the amount of free and slave states.

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There were many important Compromises between the years of 1820 and 1860, some that worked completely and some that didn’t. In the early nineteenth century, people were good at compromising and making things work for everyone. How long did perfect compromising actually last? Slavery began to split the nation apart, causing compromising to become hard to do.

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Slavery had led to a division in the United States. Northerners expressed the abolishment of slavery while the Southerners were in favor of it. During the 1850’s, the United States became polarized due to slavery sentiments on both sides and Congress passed Fugitive Slave Laws. Congress passed the fugitive slave laws in 1793 and 1850 to return slaves who had escaped from a slave state into a free state or territory. The ideology of the fugitive slave law was borrowed from the Fugitive Slave Clause in the United States Constitution (Article IV, Section 2, Paragraph 3).

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