Three of the compromises that were set in motion include The Missouri Compromise, The Compromise of 1850 and The Kansas-Nebraska Act. These compromises and agreements were meant to solve the conflicts between the North and the South. The Missouri Compromise
The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act was an act, which allowed new territories to decide if they were a free or slave state by popular sovereignty (Civilwar.org, Kansas-Nebraska Act). Kansas-Nebraska Act negated the Missouri Compromise. Missouri Compromise was an effort by the congress to diffuse the political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri in 1819 for admission as a state in which supported slavery (Garraty and Foner). This was done to restore the balance of slave and free states at the time. Kansas-Nebraska Act violated the compromise that was made in the Missouri Compromise, it reignited the disagreement between the anti and pro-slavery factions, which lead to violent events.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act states that people in Kansas and Nebraska can decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery in that specific state. This act repealed the Missouri Compromise, which prohibits slavery north of latitude 36 ° 30’. The Kansas-Nebraska Act infuriated many people in the North who considered the Missouri Compromise to be a long-standing binding settlement. On the other hand, in the South, this Act was strongly supported. After this act was put into affect, both pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers immediately rushed into Kansas to vote in the first election.
As the United States moved west during its Westward expansion, it prevented the south from making the states above that line to become a slave state. Because of this the Compromise of 1850 was made so that certain states would be determined to be a slave state or not. In addition to this conflict, problems in Kansas and Nebraska sparked an internal territorial problem in these states. For example in Kansas there were battles over territories which either allowed slavery or opposed it. This caused the Kansas-Nebraska act to be
The Compromise of 1820 was caused by Missouri wanting to be admitted to the Union as a slave state. This would have caused an imbalance between slave states and free states in Congress. So, the free states, the North, opposed Missouri being a slave state. The compromise was possible because there was also the admittance of Maine to the Union as a free state, so Missouri could be a slave state without disrupting the balance in Congress. There was also the 36°30' line that started from Missouri.
Fugitive Slave Law was the most argumentable part of the Compromise of 1850 and caused many abolitionists to increase their efforts against slavery and also increased the Underground Railroad
The issue the compromise was about was whether there should be slavery in the western territories. Maine wanted to be added to the Union, however, slavery was banned there. If Maine were to be added to the Union, it would upset the balance between free and slave states in the nation and the Senate. So, the Missouri Compromise, proposed by Senator Henry Clay, allowed Maine to enter the Union as a free state, and allowed Missouri to be entered into the Union as a slave state.
The Compromise of 1850 was a series of five bills that were intended to avoid sectional conflict. There were many bills that were in the beginning combined into one "omnibus" bill , but failed to pass senate because only a minority approved the fixations. These new bills were: 1) California was entered as a free state, 2) New Mexico and Utah were each allowed to use popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery, 3) The Republic of Texas gave up lands that it claimed in present day New Mexico and received $10 million to pay its debt to Mexico, 4) The slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia, and 5) The Fugitive Slave Act made any federal official who did not arrest a runaway slave liable to pay a fine.
Compromise of 1850 I believe the authors are correct; the overall benefit of the 1850 Compromise was to the North. The North received a huge advantage when California entered as a free state and tipped the senate balance permanently against the South. Few Northerners enforced the “Fugitive Slave Act”, which mandated that the states that escaped slaves fled to be held obligated to return the slaves to their masters upon their discovery and also subjected the persons who helped runaway slaves to criminal sanctions, such as heavy fines, imprisonment or both. The South did get tougher fugitive slave laws of 1850, the specifics were (A) runaway slaves weren’t given “due process” rights if caught; (B) the official that handled the case received
The Missouri Compromise has just been signed by our President, James Monroe. The Missouri Compromise is a compromise my Congress that admits Missouri as a slave state, which would have upsets the delicate balance of free states to slave states in the Senate. In order to balance out the slave states to Free states, land is carved from Massachusetts in the north to form the state of Maine. So the Compromise then outlines that the rest of the Missouri Territory (formerly Louisiana Territory but had a name change with the admission of Louisiana as a state) above the Missouri Compromise Line would be free and those below would be slave states with the exception of Missouri.
The Civil War also known as “ The War Between the States” was one of the many wars that changed the United States for the greater good. The war went on for about four years. There were tremendous amount of soldiers and people dead or either wounded. The war occurred due to the different opinions of slavery resulting in the separation of the north and south states, farming, and failing compromises.
The Fugitive Slave act essentially gave commissioners the “authority to ake and remove such fugitives from service or labor, under the restrictions herein contained, to the State or Territory from which such persons may have escaped or fled” (Fugitive Slave Act of 1850). If anyone was found guilty of not turning in a fugitive slave to authorities, they themselves were punished for not doing what was considered their “duty.” In the end, the Compromise of 1850 was based primarily on sectional conflict and came about through sectionalism or the selfish way of supporting what is best for one’s region of the Nation rather than what is best for the Nation as a whole. The Northern states wanted these new territories to be free, causing greater representation in government for the free states. On the other hand, The Southern States wanted the new territories to be slave territories, therefore, increasing their representation in
The compromise of 1850 included a few thing, one being a new law called the Fugitive slave law created to help slave owner recapture their runaway slaves. Their for if a slave escaped and made it to a free state in the north at this time with the new law there was a good chance they were going back. The Compromise wasn't all bad though, it abolished slave trade in the District of Columbia, allowed California to become a free state, allowed additional territories such as Utah and New Mexico to decide for themselves if they wanted to allow slavery
There were several components of the Compromise of 1850 that rubbed people the wrong way. The Fugitive Slave Act was one such thing. It gave even more power to slave holders, and allowed them a way to imprison free slaves; they could claim were runaways and the fugitives were not allowed a trial to argue their freedom. Harriet Beecher Stowe created a novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin about an abolitionist movement after the enactment of the Fugitive Slave Act.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was an attempt by Congress to ease some of the political rivalries between the North and the South (history.com 2009). The compromise stated the fact that all states up north would not have slavery and all states south would allow and continue the act of slavery (history.com 2009). It went both ways since it split the country up evenly between slave and free. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was handwritten by Henry Clay in 1820 (ancestralfindings.com 1995). On March 6th of 1820, President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise and made it the new law of the land (loc.gov 2017).
