1854 by Stephen Douglas. He was a democrat senator from Illinois. He was trying to help the country spread westward to place himself for national power. to figure out a way to overcome the sectional disputes that were remaining in the aftermath of 1850‚ trying to do so to organize the territories between Mississippian river and the pacific coast. His main goal was to overcome all the debates about the future of slavery. His solution was Popular sovereignty‚ this meant that the citizens of each new
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Slavery in the United States: Attempts at and Failure of Compromise The Path to Civil War Ms. Wallace • Sobrato High School Thursday‚ November 3‚ 2011 It all started at the Constitutional Convention The Three-Fifths Compromise Allowed southern states to count 3/5 of their slave populations for purposes of determining how many representatives they would receive in Congress. Since the number of electors a state receives in the electoral college is based on the number of members of Congress it has
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constantly being changed. They never really satisfied both sections. Some examples are the Compromise of 1850‚ Dred-Scott decision‚ Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ etc. All of these were unsuccessful in keeping the North and South together. I believe if successful compromises were made to please both sections and were not constantly being changed‚ the Union could have stayed together. When the Compromise of 1850 was made‚ the South wasn’t very fond of the idea. “If the agitation goes on‚ the same force‚ acting
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Even though slavery was the cause of the civil war‚ the primary cause was not slavery‚ it was the territorial expansion. First of all‚ to make it clear‚ it is not wrong that slavery was the cause of the Civil War. As John C. Calhoun stated on March 4‚ 1850‚ “the subject of slavery would‚ if not prevented by some timely and effective measure‚ end in disunion… adopt some measure to prevent so great a disaster‚ but without success
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for the anti-slavery forces‚ as slavery was permitted in the newly absorbed territories‚ which lay below the line set in the Missouri Compromise. This helped galvanize both sides‚ beginning a process that would make war inevitable. Compromise of 1850. An attempt to deal with some of the slavery related issues brought up by the end of the Mexican Wars. The classic example of why some compromises don’t work‚ these acts satisfied no one‚ and angered just about everyone. A free California‚ a slave
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Constitution Controversy In the 1850’s‚ there was much controversy and tension over the constitution between the states and the people. It did contribute to the failure of the union because of the different interpretations of the constitution‚ the conflictions of other documents‚ and tensions of the states and people. First off‚ if everyone had one interpretation on what the constitution implied‚ then there probably would not have been a civil war. From several of the documents‚ there are arguments
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Ever since declaring its independence from Britain‚ America has developed on the foundation of compromise. Upon the drafting of the Constitution‚ the Founding Fathers were succumbed to compromise in order to incorporate the needs of the different parts of the nation. During the early eighteenth century‚ Americans achieved reconciliation of political disputes‚ predominately between the North and the South‚ through compromise. By 1860 this was no longer feasible and the nation was faced with disheartening
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war was the only option left in attempt to solve the disagreements‚ the North and South had to have a Civil War. The Fugitive Slave Act was an immediate cause of the Civil War. It was passed by the United States Congress as part of The Compromise of 1850. In this compromise‚ the North advocates gained the admission of California and the South had no states ready for admission. Therefore‚ the South was given stricter laws against slavery. The Fugitive Slave Act was introduced as a way to limit slavery
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the Underground Railroad passed slaves to freedom‚ inflaming the North with righteous anger and enraging the South over the North’s perceived theft. Californian demands for admission as a free state alarmed the South‚ which called for a convention in 1850 to decide whether or not to secede. Henry Clay‚ John C. Calhoun‚ and and Daniel Webster
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In addition‚ there were some major Civil War laws of the Western Expansion‚ such as the Missouri Compromise of 1820‚ the Compromise of 1850‚ and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was an effort to conserve a balance of power between the slaveholding states and free states‚ by the U.S Senate and the House of Reps. The slaveholding states feared of being outnumbered in the Congressional Representation. They feared because they would lack the power to protect their interest
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