The government should not approve the compromise‚ because of the fact that slavery is immoral and every step should be taken to slowly ablolish it. The government should not approve the compromise‚ which might have avoided a war. Another compromise could have been created to keep the north and the south satisfied. The compromise should not be approved because it leaves both sides unbalanced. The south would not have slaves in Utah or New Mexico simply because of thier geographical features. Slavery
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Summary of Source The Compromise entailed the division of the Northern and Southern states‚ that was proposed by the Henry Clay to the Senate and had occurred after the appeal of the Missouri Compromise and Compromise Tariff of 1832. He wanted to decentralize the act of using nationalistic pride with territory and statesmen. Clay wanted the North and South to come to an agreement with each other without ruining the nation. He initiated his speech by giving a synopsis of what a negotiation incorporates
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Senator John Crittenden‚ offered the Crittenden Compromise as a last ditch effort to end the Civil War. It‚ like many other compromises before it‚ tried to make a compromise between the North and the South about which United States territories should and should not have slavery. The Compromise of 1850‚ and the Missouri Compromise were two previous compromises that had been passed that dealt with slavery in the United States. The Crittenden Compromise proposed that the United States take the boundary
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overhaul of the Federal government. With the exception of Rhode Island‚ these men came from all over the states: large and small‚ north and south. This diversity in delegates helped create a balance of ideas that would become known as constitutional compromises. Without these integral ideas coming together‚ we would not have the government we know today. The delegates of Virginia were the first and most voiced of the crowd. They came straight in with a clear idea of what they wanted to achieve. Edmund
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foundation of the New World‚ compromises and negotiations kept the nation as one. However‚ until the mid-19th century‚ America attempted to solve their disputes through compromises‚ but due to their constant issues of slavery‚ compromises were no longer supportive. During 1820-1860‚ several reasons in the political views on slavery eventually led to the termination of compromise. Henry Clay‚ the Great Compromiser‚ generated the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 in order to maintain
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North and South were clashing with‚ “irreconcilable differences of principle‚ and bleeding from wounds within their own household” on June 13‚ 1860‚ only a year before the civil war commenced. Compromises worked to diffuse tensions early on; however as ideas like popular sovereignty came into play‚ compromises were no longer effective. Cultural and economic differences between the North and South continually intensified until finally reaching a climax in 1861 when the civil war started in earnest.
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the United States Congress passed the Missouri Compromise. Before it was passed the Northern states and Southern states had different ideas of the states. The North wanted to limit slavery‚ while the Southern states wanted more slavery. Missouri wanted to become a slave state in 1820‚ but the Northern states wouldn’t allow it. As a compromise‚ Missouri could be a slave state as long as Maine was added as its own free state‚ thus the Missouri Compromise. Along with these factors a rule of 36⁰30N was
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Missouri Compromise In 1819‚ the territory of Missouri applied for statehood. It was the first new state to be taken from the land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase. The issue of Missouri attempting to become a state sparked much debate and controversy. The debate in Congress was mainly about sectional power and not whether slavery was right or wrong. The people from the North disagreed with the added representation in Congress and in the Electoral College. Since Missouri would be a slave
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These failed compromises served purposes other than their intended ones. They served to “feed the extremist factions” in each of the divided sections of America. The deterioration of these compromises aided the progression of groups like the Radical Republicans‚ Know- Nothings‚ Free-Soil Party‚ and Abolitionists. One of the compromises that served to feed these factions was the Missouri Compromise. As stated before‚ this compromise debated on the admission Maine and Missouri as slave or free states
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