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    Compromise * Missouri Compromise (1820) -It didn’t allow slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north except Missouri. Allowed Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. * Compromise of 1850 ( 1850) - Admit California as a free state; uphold popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah; Includes Fugitive Slave Act; Settles Texas/New Mexico border disputes; Ban slave trade in Washington D.C * Kansas Nebraska Act (1854) - Divide the Kansas territory into Kansas

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    The Compromise of 1850 was an effort to pacify the rising tensions between the north and the south. The issue of slavery was becoming a problem that none could overlook. This bitter rivalry was heating up even more so after the Mexican-American war. America won substantial amount of land‚ which stretched all the way to Mexico City. This land would give the south a grand portion of political power‚ surpassing the North. Henry Clay‚ supported by President Fillmore‚ created a compromise with the purpose

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    There were many rational and somewhat compromising decisions and actions made by those who opposed slavery during the events of the Missouri compromise and the compromise of 1850. These compromises were meant to stop or slow the spread of slavery to the northern states of the United States. The Missouri compromise included Missouri wanting to enter the union as a slave state. At that time there were eleven slave states and eleven free states. Missouri would have made the states uneven. A political

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    Wilmot Proviso/Compromise of 1850 The Wilmot Proviso came about when President Polk asked Congress for $2 million dollars‚ during the Mexican War‚ in an attempt to buy peace with Mexico. This Proviso named after its sponsor David Wilmot‚ an antislavery Democrat from Pennsylvania‚ was an attempt by opponents of slavery to prevent slaves to be introduction into the newly purchased territories from Mexico after the war. The proviso passed the House but not the Senate due to the Southern take on

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    Comp. of 1850: The significance of this compromise was that it‚ like a number of other actions‚ was an attempt to refuse the tensions that were leading to the Civil War. It is also significant to write that the Compromise failed to do this to any great extent. The Compromise of 1850 was meant to be like the Missouri Compromise. It was meant to calm sectional tensions. However‚ it was not able to do this. It failed to calm the tensions largely because of the inclusion of the Fugitive Slave Act

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    Furtive Slave Act of 1850. Stating runaway slave were to be returned to their masters‚ even if captured in free states. With this the northern states felt the federal government was robbing them to regulate slavery in their own district. Consequently‚ with tensions building on both sides John C.

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    The Compromise of 1850 Chris Owens 13404 The Compromise of 1850 is one of the most important compromises in this history of the United States‚ maybe even the world. The Compromise of 1850 is made up of five bills passed in the United States of America in September 1850‚ and it terminated a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the south and the free states of the north concerning the position of territories gained during the time of the Mexican-American war

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    civil war was slavery through people’s reactions and actions to the Compromise of 1850‚ John Brown’s raid on Harper Ferry‚ and the expansion to the west. The compromise of 1850 was the first reason the Civil War was caused. The Compromise of 1850 was a solution to California’s wanting to enter the union and ended up upsetting the balance between slave and free states. On the website American Historama it says “The Compromise of 1850 was an attempt to smooth out the confrontation between the slave

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    Antebellum Period Compromise of 1850 was an agreement designed to ease tensions caused by the expansion of slavery‚ just like a brother and sister makes an agreement with each other to share time in the bathroom to eliminated fighting with one another. The Underground Railroad is a network of escape routes that provided protection and transportation for slaves. A brother and sister might hide their CD’s so the other one will not scratch or break them. Popular Sovereignty is the policies

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    What was the compromise of 1850? The Compromise of 1850 was a series of five bills that were intended to stave off sectional strife. Its goal was to deal with the spread of slavery to territories in order to keep northern and southern interests in balance. What was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850? The passage of this Act along with slaveholding rights in Texas allowed California to enter the union as a free state and prohibited the slave trade in the District of Columbia. a.What was the

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