Missouri Compromise as well as the extension of slavery into the western territories. They supported the concept of admitting Kansas as a free state‚ and hoped to restore the nation to the principles and standards of Washington and Jefferson. The emergence of the Republican Party was a primary cause of the Civil War through its opposition to the repealing of the Missouri Compromise‚ sectional bias‚ and nomination of Abraham Lincoln for the Presidential Election of 1860. The Missouri Compromise of
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such a hot topic‚ many compromises including the Missouri compromise‚ and the compromise of 1850 touched on slavery‚ and tried to appease both sides. Compromise seemed to be the best and most effective to use in the early nineteenth century‚ but by 1860 this no longer seemed possible. The two differing viewpoints had little room for compromise this change being because of political‚ social‚ and intellectual reasons. As Political parties became heated the idea of compromise was seen as even more
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slavery have ended? Would America be anything like what it is today? If several key leaders in the early 1860’s had their way‚ the war would never have happened. These efforts were led mainly by leaders from northern and border states and they sometimes involve making major concession to southern leaders. The chain of events immediately prior to the Civil War were known as the Secession Crisis of 1860. This crisis was the culmination of many events that had fed into the South’s distrust and resentment
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went through what can be called a revolution. During the time period of 1860 to 1877‚ many constitutional and social developments brought great change to the country. Some constitutional developments that caused conflict were the Emancipation Proclamation and the reconstruction‚ while some social developments‚ which could possibly have lead to a revolution‚ were the Freedmen’s Bureau‚ the Black Codes‚ and the KKK. Prior to 1860 the America was already split into two sides‚ the north and south. To
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Missouri Compromise: - Missouri admitted as slave state - Maine created as free state - Line of 1820 (36 .30 ) 1828-1833 - South Carolina tariff nullification crisis 1831-1860 – antislavery activism (1831: William Lloyd Garrison - The Liberator) 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Southampton County‚ Virginia 1845 annexation of Texas 1846-1848 Mexican War 1848 U.S. victory over Mexico; territorial expansion (California‚ Utah and New Mexico territories) 1850 Compromise of 1850:
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This is why many political leaders in the southern states thought they were being attacked by the northern states‚ especially by Lincoln and the Republican Party. One of the first compromises that had been accepted was the Missouri Compromise of 1820. The Missouri Compromise was the effort of Missouri not only to become a state but to become a slave state also. This upset the balance between slave and non-slave states. “They reached a boiling point after Missouri’s 1819 request
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line (black) to show the Missouri Compromise line. Use the same colors that you used in 1 to shade in the territories where slavery was allowed or prohibited. (Slave State Allowed Territory / Free State Prohibited Territory) Create a key in the blank box. True or False - write true next to each statement that is true. Correct all false statements making them true. ________ Pennsylvania was a free state in 1820. ________According to the Missouri Compromise‚ slavery would be prohibited in the
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the Presidential election of 1860. Because of such strong reactions to these events‚ the Civil War was practically unstoppable‚ however if the parties wanted to avoid a war altogether‚ they could have advocated more compromise and popular sovereignty. As previously mentioned‚ slavery was at the root of most tensions that arose between the North and the South‚ and the annexation of new land created much conflict concerning the status of slavery. Missouri Compromise dictated that the lands of the
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and gave the U.S. new territory but was torn in deciding which states could have slaves or not which led to the conflict resulting in the compromise of 1850. Compromise of 1850 The compromise of 1850 was to solve the problem of slavery without congress having to decide. The compromise would make northerners and southerners happy. The points of the compromise were that California became a free state; Texas’s boundaries were set to its present limits and the United States paid $10 million in compensation
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