moving to end the practice in one fell swoop. Missouri compromise: Unable to stop the spread of slavery altogether‚ abolitionists at least were able to restrict its spread. Mexican War: A setback for the anti-slavery forces‚ as slavery was permitted in the newly absorbed territories‚ which lay below the line set in the Missouri Compromise. This helped galvanize both sides‚ beginning a process that would make war inevitable. Compromise of 1850. An attempt to deal with some of the slavery related
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main vice for freed slaves who remained in the South and wished to politically organize themselves. The creation of the Freedmen’s Bureau was able to assist the emancipated slaves intended to serve as a sort of welfare agency. However‚ with the Compromise of 1877‚ these reforms were mostly eradicated and the ideals for equal rights among races wouldn’t return to the premise of American history for another century. After the publishing
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Constitution if it allowed slavery to continue. Although it was never determined‚ the people‚ particularly Southerners‚ took it upon themselves to assume that since it was unclear‚ they were to decide the fate of slavery with popular sovereignty. The Compromise of 1850 broke apart the Nebraska and Kansas territory into two separate territories. The Kansas territory was
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north’s society evolved as people of different cultures and classed had to work together‚ while the south continued to hold on to an antiquated social order. This difference between the norths would cause problems in the future. The Missouri Compromise passed in 1820 that passed a rule that prohibited slavery in states from the former Louisiana Purchase and Main. Leaving Missouri and west of it slave states. Which later on the Southern believed that slavery would be under attack and began to
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opposed to the spread of slavery in the context of two of the following: The Missouri Compromise The Mexican War Compromise Of 1850 Kansas-Nebraska Act The moral and political actions of those opposed to the spread of slavery in the context of The Mexican War and The Kansas-Nebraska Act are very conflicting. With the upset in balance of the Mexican War‚ antislavery activists were upset about any potential compromise while with the Kansas-Nebraska act‚ they settled with the idea of them being in a
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The possible compromise for the Drinking Age Many debate whether the drinking age is at a reasonable age. It has been a controversial topic that has influenced many people and has been disputed upon numerous times. The drinking age should be lowered to age 19‚ for many reasons. The majority of teenagers that want to drink‚ are already drinking before the age of 21. At age 19 students are out of High School‚ and getting ready to live on their own. They also have the responsibility of making choices
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led them west. In the beginning of westward expansion‚ the issue of slavery in the newly settles territory became an important and dividing political issue. The Missouri Compromise tried to reach an agreement between the North and South‚ admitting Maine as a free state‚ but Missouri as a slave state. Although the Missouri Compromise was unsuccessful in satisfying the North and South‚ it was important in that it marked the boundary for slavery in the territory
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ith the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney and throughout the addition of many new territories in the United States‚ the issue of slavery had never been so prominent and controversial in the states. Due to the Fugitive Slave Act that forced citizens to assist in capture of runaway slave‚ idea of citizens deciding whether territories would be free or slave states - known as popular soveirgnty‚ as well as the varying interpretations of the constitution‚ especially on the subject of slavery
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It was his wish for the institution of slavery to eventually be ended‚ but understood it’s importance to the lives of Southerners. Early in 1854‚ Stephan A. Douglas routinely introduced a bill to the United States Senate to repeal the Missouri Compromise and allow the locals of the Nebraska Territory to decide whether their territories would be free states or slave states. Douglas’ bill would be enacted‚ but it would cause a “storm” of protests in the North. Northerners‚ for the most part‚ came
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had created this act for his own financial gain seeing as he was a director of the Central Railroad of Illinois and he wanted the train to run through Chicago. But in order to do this‚ the plains had to be settled above the line of the Missouri Compromise. Because of the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854‚ Stephen Douglas got what he wanted‚ and ultimately settled the plains in Kansas and Nebraska in order to expand business into the western territories which would lead to future economic prosperity‚ while
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