Analyze The Consequences Of The Civil War
Before the beginning of the Civil War, Americans tried to resolve slavery by drawing or erasing a geographical line to limit or expand the growth of slavery. These lines were not very affective and changed much too often. It begins with the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 and ends with the Crittendon Compromise in 1861.
The Northwestern Ordinance (1787) was the biggest success under the Articles of Confederation. It wrote out how the nation should deal with its colonies. It created a policy for administering the Northwest Territories. It included a path to statehood and forbade the expansion of slavery into the territories. It was a judicious compromise with temporary tutelage and then permanent equality. This ordinance covered the Northwest Territory which was the area bordered by the Mississippi River, Ohio River, and Great Lakes. Southern states agreed to the provision of no slavery in this territory, but that didn’t last …show more content…
for long. This ordinance also gave a bill of rights, which included jury trial, freedom of religion, right of new states to join the Union on equal footing with older states, and gave citizens in territories same rights as citizens of states.
The three- fifths compromise (1787) determined that each slave would be counted as three- fifths of a person for the purpose of appointing taxes and representation.
The compromise granted disproportionate political power to Southern slave states.
The Missouri Compromise in 1820 allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state but preserved the balance between North and South by carving free- soil Maine out of Massachusetts and prohibiting slavery from territories acquired in the Louisiana Purchase, north of the line of 36° 30’. This compromise also preserved the shaky compact of the states. Later in 1865, the thirteenth amendment was added to the constitution eight months after the Civil War ended.
The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a Free State, opened New Mexico and Utah to popular sovereignty and ended the slave trade (but not slavery itself) in Washington, D.C., and introduced a more stringent fugitive slave law. Widely opposed in both the North and South, it did little to settle the escalating dispute over slavery and slavery
continued.
In 1854, the Kansas- Nebraska Act proposed that the issue of slavery be decided by popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories, thus revoking the 1820 Missouri Compromise. It was introduced by Stephen Douglas in an effort to bring Nebraska into the Union and clear the way for a northern transcontinental railroad.
The Crittendon Compromise (amendments) went into effect in 1860. It proposed in an attempt to appease the South, the failed Constitutional amendments would have given federal protection for slavery in all territories south of 36° 30’ where slavery was supported by popular sovereignty. These were designed to appease the South.
Slavery really took a toll on this great nation. It set us back on bettering our country, until Abraham Lincoln came along. Although he did accidentally make slavery illegal and freed most of the slaves, he still helped a lot of people out and made this country freer than it was before. Although he didn’t free all the slaves, he did free a vast majority of them and that helped to bring this country forward.
Americans had tried to resolve slavery before the Civil War by drawing or erasing a geographical line to limit or expand the growth of slavery. These lines were not very affective as you can see and changed much too often. It began with the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 and ended with the Crittendon Compromise in 1861. The nation went through not only these two influential events, but also the Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, the Kansas- Nebraska Act, and the Three- Fifths Compromise. These events all shaped what our country has become today and helped to end the slavery.
The Northwestern Ordinance (1787) was the biggest success under the Articles of Confederation. It wrote out how the nation should deal with its colonies. It created a policy for administering the Northwest Territories. It included a path to statehood and forbade the expansion of slavery into the territories. It was a judicious compromise with temporary tutelage and then permanent equality. This ordinance covered the Northwest Territory which was the area bordered by the Mississippi River, Ohio River, and Great Lakes. Southern states agreed to the provision of no slavery in this territory, but that didn’t last …show more content…
for long. This ordinance also gave a bill of rights, which included jury trial, freedom of religion, right of new states to join the Union on equal footing with older states, and gave citizens in territories same rights as citizens of states.
The three- fifths compromise (1787) determined that each slave would be counted as three- fifths of a person for the purpose of appointing taxes and representation.
The compromise granted disproportionate political power to Southern slave states.
The Missouri Compromise in 1820 allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state but preserved the balance between North and South by carving free- soil Maine out of Massachusetts and prohibiting slavery from territories acquired in the Louisiana Purchase, north of the line of 36° 30’. This compromise also preserved the shaky compact of the states. Later in 1865, the thirteenth amendment was added to the constitution eight months after the Civil War ended.
The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a Free State, opened New Mexico and Utah to popular sovereignty and ended the slave trade (but not slavery itself) in Washington, D.C., and introduced a more stringent fugitive slave law. Widely opposed in both the North and South, it did little to settle the escalating dispute over slavery and slavery
continued.
In 1854, the Kansas- Nebraska Act proposed that the issue of slavery be decided by popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories, thus revoking the 1820 Missouri Compromise. It was introduced by Stephen Douglas in an effort to bring Nebraska into the Union and clear the way for a northern transcontinental railroad.
The Crittendon Compromise (amendments) went into effect in 1860. It proposed in an attempt to appease the South, the failed Constitutional amendments would have given federal protection for slavery in all territories south of 36° 30’ where slavery was supported by popular sovereignty. These were designed to appease the South.
Slavery really took a toll on this great nation. It set us back on bettering our country, until Abraham Lincoln came along. Although he did accidentally make slavery illegal and freed most of the slaves, he still helped a lot of people out and made this country freer than it was before. Although he didn’t free all the slaves, he did free a vast majority of them and that helped to bring this country forward.
Americans had tried to resolve slavery before the Civil War by drawing or erasing a geographical line to limit or expand the growth of slavery. These lines were not very affective as you can see and changed much too often. It began with the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 and ended with the Crittendon Compromise in 1861. The nation went through not only these two influential events, but also the Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, the Kansas- Nebraska Act, and the Three- Fifths Compromise. These events all shaped what our country has become today and helped to end the slavery.