the Confederacy‚ the Civil War was inevitable. During the latter part of the antebellum era‚ reforms such as the Compromise of 1850‚ the Fugitive Slave Act‚ and the Kansas-Nebraska Act fostered both immediate and long term changes to the lives of African Americans‚ returning free African Americans to their lives of slavery and forcing them to flee to Canada; however‚ the Missouri Compromise maintained
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would be admitted as slave states or free states. To deal with this‚ Congress passed the Compromise of 1850 which basically made California free and allowed the people to pick in Utah and New Mexico. The ability of a state to decide whether it would allow slavery or not was called popular sovereignty. 2. Fugitive Slave Act - 1850 The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed as a part of the Compromise of 1850. This act forced any federal official who did not arrest a runaway slave liable to pay a
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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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Slavery’s Effect on Political Party’s During antebellum America there were a lot of different parties‚ acts‚ and compromises created due to slavery. This issue is what eventually led our nation to the Civil War. Although U.S. expansion during the 1850’s was not the main reason why the nation got torn apart‚ the increase of land was a catalyst to it. The fact that there was equilibrium in congress between the North and the South was basically the last hanging thread before war. After the conquest
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present day Kansa and Nebraska that were supposed to be settled in the compromise of
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lit the fuse leading to the American Civil War‚ by making it impossible for Northerners to continue to ignore the harsh realities of slavery in the South. The attempts that were made to compromise and prevent war were the Compromise of 1850‚ The Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ and The Corwin Amendment. The Compromise of 1850 was unsuccessful in preventing the Civil War because it was made up of 5 bills that tried to resolve the dispute over slavery for the new territories. California was admitted to be a free
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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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the Underground Railroad passed slaves to freedom‚ inflaming the North with righteous anger and enraging the South over the North’s perceived theft. Californian demands for admission as a free state alarmed the South‚ which called for a convention in 1850 to decide whether or not to secede. Henry Clay‚ John C. Calhoun‚ and and Daniel Webster
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The 1787 draft of the United States Constitution‚ included many clauses that supported the institution of slavery. For instance‚ the Three-Fidths Compromise increased the political might of Southern states by counting enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for determining congressional representation (Philbrick). To estimate a state’s overall population for legislative representation and taxation
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Compromises played a big role in delaying the civil war. It was an attempt to slow the spread of slavery to the states up north and also to the territories in the west. It kept the nation united by trying to give everyone something they wanted‚ in order to keep them all happy. In 1850 there was an equal amount of the free states and the slave states. The territories and states did not want the government to control whether or not they were a slave state or a free state. They wanted to base the decision
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