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    American prosperity. Southerners were highly dependent‚ and supportive of slavery‚ however many moral arguments and political actions went toward the opposition to the spread of slavery including the Missouri compromise‚ the Compromise of 1850‚ and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The Missouri Compromise was one of the political actions towards prohibiting slavery in new territory. It was a two-part political action by Henry Clay‚ he would first admit Missouri to the union as a free state‚ and was balanced

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    sovereignty‚ the idea that issues should be decided upon by the people (specifically‚ it applied to slavery‚ stating that the people in the territories should decide to legalize it or not). It was good (and liked by politicians) because it was a compromise between the extremes of the North and the South‚ and it stuck with the idea of self-determination‚ but it could spread slavery. II. Political Triumphs for General Taylor The Whigs nominated General Zachary Taylor‚ the hero of Buena Vista

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    south‚ imbalance was unacceptable. II. Compromise of 1850 1. Henry Clay of Kentucky proposed a compromise that would later become the Compromise of 1850. 2. The compromise drew attack‚ especially regarding California. b. John C. Calhoun asked that the slave states be allowed to secede from the Union. 3. A compromise was enacted that year and seemed to settle most disputes between free and slave states. 4. With the Compromise of 1850‚ Texas agreed to give up its land claims

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    Stephen Douglas created a bill which made Kansas and Nebraska vote whether they were to be free or slave. The issue was the Missouri Compromise created the line for slavery the southern border of Missouri and Nebraska and Kansas‚ being north of the border‚ caused tension to increase between the North and South. In order to influence the vote in Kansas‚ Missourians purchased land in Kansas

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    Missouri Compromise‚ John Brown’s raid‚ The 1850 Compromise‚ The Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ and the constant conflict between the North and South. The Northwest Ordinance said the there could be no slavery in states north of the Ohio River‚ however slave holders moved west to new states. This then led to the Missouri Compromise which said no slave states passed the 36 30 degree. John Brown’s raid on the federal arsenal was considered by many to be the cause of the civil war. The 1850 Compromise was also

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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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    they did not simply cross the river to the free state of Illinois as opposed to following the Mississippi River to the Ohio River originally but ending up travelling to Arkansas. However‚ Jim and Huck could not just cross the river due to the Compromise of 1850‚ and the fact that the incumbent senator of Illinois was Stephen Douglas. This ultimately forced them to travel South‚ and brought into view the possible realization that the ‘free’ states were no more free than the ‘slave’ states and the questionable

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    behind the Compromise of 1850‚ and in opposition to sectional quarreling. The bill was to establish the Kansas and Nebraska territories. He wanted to send an transcontinental railroad into the area to help increase the economic activity in his home state of Illinois and encourage settlement of the Great Plains area. Since no Company would build a railroad until the area had been organized‚ Douglas introduced the bill. The Kansas-Nebraska Bill showed a fallacy in the Compromise of 1850’s ideal of

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    Essay Outline I. A. B. II. A. B. III. A. B. IV. A. B. V. A. B. Source A: Events Leading to Disunion • 1820 - Missouri Compromise: The legislation prohibited slavery in the newly acquired Louisiana Territory above the 36°30’N latitude line‚ admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state‚ and Maine as a free state in order to maintain the balance of slave and free states in

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    states or a free states. The North valued the abolition of slavery while the South thrived on slavery. Many compromises were created due to this conflict between two

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