expand‚ first with the lands gained from the Louisiana Purchase and later with the Mexican War‚ the question of whether new states admitted to the union would be slave or free. The Missouri Compromise passed in 1820 made a rule that prohibited slavery in states from the former Louisiana Purchase. The Compromise of 1850
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The United States was built on details and designed by compromises and traditions. Compromises and traditions are ideas the original writers of the United States Constitution felt would help ground future generations within the political arena and unite the country as a whole. A wide range of issues‚ including the checks and balances were written in order to deprive an individual government to impose their will on others. Americans were built on details that have been brought by two main political
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and the South had political disputes as well as personal disputes (physical arguments). In the time period of the Missouri Compromise‚ (In 1820)‚ political and personal disputes began to rise in both the North and South. Disagreements use to be settled out very calmly‚ but soon disagreements became out of hand. The North and South had personal disputes. In the Compromise of 1850‚ the North and South had a stand-off between the free states and the slave states. This argument concerned or worried
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America that had been so successfully founded and developed by its united citizens was threatened by civil war. The early part of the century sought compromise that would end disputes between the Northern and Southern regions of the country; however‚ by 1850‚ tensions between the two parties had risen far beyond conciliation. These tensions that made compromise impossible centered mostly on the issue of slavery‚ and the zeal that many people had in defending their own view of slavery. The division of political
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of life had developed differently throughout the U.S.‚ creating a feeling of disunity. Resolving disputes threw compromise no longer seemed possible. They had no reason to compromise and work out their disputes because the South wanted to form a confederacy of their own. This all began to deteriorate because of the dramatic economic‚ social‚ and political issues‚ such as the Compromise of 1850‚ Fugitive Slave Act‚ political leaders‚ succession attempts‚ and the Kansas-Nebraska Act gradually became
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stand.” The issue of slavery was one of such magnitude that division on such an issue would inevitably lead to a war‚ and could not have been avoided by compromise. With the Missouri Compromise initially dividing the country and the debate over slavery stretching on for over half a century the issue consumed the nation. After many failed compromise attempts‚ and vicious attacks of North on South and vise versa on a national and personal level‚ the government soon realized that war was imminent.
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meet the necessities of slavery.” This basically means that the constitution could have many interpretations on the basis that no “right” interpretation was ever stated.There were many feuds between documents following the Constitution such as the Compromise of 1850 as show in in the map of (Document A) where the country is broken into 2 parts‚ not unified because of slavery‚ along with the Fugitive Slave Law‚ (Document
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the making. With every new tax‚ tariff‚ law‚ or new state entry the North and South disagreed. The Missouri Compromise‚ Manifest Destiny‚ Popular Sovereignty‚ Bleeding Kansas‚ the entry of new states‚ newspapers and books‚ the Dred Scott Case‚ Immigration‚ and the Compromise of 1850 were just a few of the reasons that caused the North and South to go to war. The Missouri Compromise was the first solution to the first open conflict that took place between the north and South. This Missouri
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Northwest Ordinance. The Northwest Ordinance stopped slavery in the Northwest Territories. In 1817‚ when Missouri applied to the Union as a slave state‚ the issue of anti-slavery vs. pro slavery came up. In 1819‚ Maine applied to become a free state. A compromise was then reached‚ so that Maine would enter as a free state‚ while Missouri would enter as a slave state‚ balancing free and slave states. New territories that would enter above the 36’30’ line had to be free
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Nichole Galindez AMH 2010 American History 31 October 2012 Nichole Galindez AMH 2010 American History 31 October 2012 Westward Expansion of the United States To what extent is it accurate to claim that the ideal of manifest destiny was a motivating factor in the western expansions of the United States? The 1840s was a time of great territorial expansion during which the United States fought to annex Texas‚ acquire the Oregon territory‚ and conquer California and New Mexico from Mexico
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