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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and took action to eliminate the act. Lincoln gathered a committee of 13 with 7 democrats‚ five republicans‚ and one constitutional unionist and passed a motion that the Crittenden Compromise could not be adopted unless supported by the majority of democrats and republicans. On January 16‚ 1861‚ the Crittenden Compromise was voted down in Senate‚ with all 25 Republicans voting no to 23 yes votes. Yet another attempt at peace was the Washington Peace Convention on February 4‚ 1861‚ where delegates from
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The main cause of the war was slavery‚ which could not have been stopped if it were not for the war. Since the north and the south were so distant‚ it made it hard for them to agree or compromise. The Civil War could not have been avoided because the nation including political parties were split‚ no other compromises could settle issues about slavery‚ and slave rebellions could not of been prevented. 1st paragraph: The nation and opposing political parties had so many different views that it could
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James Richards Harris 3rd The Fatal Flaws of the Constitution (DBQ) During the 1850’s‚ the supreme and absolute Constitution‚ which had previously seen no topic it couldn’t resolve or illuminate in the eyes of its interpreters‚ was faced with its toughest‚ unrelenting foe; the issue of slavery‚ and the locations that it existed in or was desired to exist in. Ultimately‚ this issue led to the demise of the Union that had been created under the watchful and guiding eye of the Constitution. This
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Court expected to lay to rest the issue of slavery in the territories. - In the Dred Scott case‚ the Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott was not a citizen of the United States; Dred Scott could not legally sue in a federal court; the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional; and Congress had no power to ban slavery from a territory. - The decision rendered in the Dred Scott case was applauded by proslavery southerners. - For a majority of northerners‚ the most outrageous part of the Supreme
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3/5 Clause a compromise? The 3/5 Clause was a compromise because it gave slave states the right to count slaves as three-fifths of a person in order to pad their representation in the House but denied any right of citizenship to those slaves. States’ leaders chose to compromise rather than tear the US apart. 4. Why did the balance of free and slave states have to be maintained? North and south both feared that the other would overpower it in Congress. 5. How does the Compromise of 1820 accomplish
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DBQ By the 1850’s the Constitution‚ originally framed as an instrument of national unity‚ had become a source of sectional discord and tension and ultimately contributed to the failure of the union it has created. This was shown by interpretations of the constitution and other documents when the constitution was assorted together. It is known that the union did not last‚ for there was the Civil War. If everyone could agree on what the constitution implied‚ then there probably would not have been
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The Great Divide The issue of slavery was discussed in many ways. People talked about the morality of the institution (or lack thereof)‚ the economics of slavery‚ and the political issues that came about because of it. No matter how it was discussed‚ the North and South could not agree. Northerners thought Southerners were corrupting the soul of America‚ and Southerners thought Northerners were hypocrites. No matter which way they looked at slavery‚ the North and South had two antithetical
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sovereignty Popular sovereignty – soverign people of territory should determine status of slavery Reasons for popularity – public liked it because accorded with democratic tradition of self-determination; politicians liked it because it seemed compromise btw abolitionists and south Zachary Taylor – Hero of Buena Vista‚ ‚ Whig candidate‚ wins presidency in 1848 Whig Platform – dodged troublesome issues‚ extolled virtues of candidate Free Soil Party platform – for Wilmot Proviso‚ against slavery
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Identify the Wilmot Proviso and Popular Sovereignty and the reaction of various political figures to these proposals. In the following years after the Mexican War‚ “Pennsylvania Democrat David Wilmot in 1846” had proposed of an amendment that read “as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico… neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory” (388). In layman’s terms‚ Wilmot offered the idea that there
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