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    Summary Of The Compromise

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    Summary of Source The Compromise entailed the division of the Northern and Southern states‚ that was proposed by the Henry Clay to the Senate and had occurred after the appeal of the Missouri Compromise and Compromise Tariff of 1832. He wanted to decentralize the act of using nationalistic pride with territory and statesmen. Clay wanted the North and South to come to an agreement with each other without ruining the nation. He initiated his speech by giving a synopsis of what a negotiation incorporates

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    Crittenden Compromise

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    Senator John Crittenden‚ offered the Crittenden Compromise as a last ditch effort to end the Civil War. It‚ like many other compromises before it‚ tried to make a compromise between the North and the South about which United States territories should and should not have slavery. The Compromise of 1850‚ and the Missouri Compromise were two previous compromises that had been passed that dealt with slavery in the United States. The Crittenden Compromise proposed that the United States take the boundary

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    Slave Compromise

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    foundation of the New World‚ compromises and negotiations kept the nation as one. However‚ until the mid-19th century‚ America attempted to solve their disputes through compromises‚ but due to their constant issues of slavery‚ compromises were no longer supportive. During 1820-1860‚ several reasons in the political views on slavery eventually led to the termination of compromise. Henry Clay‚ the Great Compromiser‚ generated the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 in order to maintain

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    The Missouri Compromise

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    North and South were clashing with‚ “irreconcilable differences of principle‚ and bleeding from wounds within their own household” on June 13‚ 1860‚ only a year before the civil war commenced. Compromises worked to diffuse tensions early on; however as ideas like popular sovereignty came into play‚ compromises were no longer effective. Cultural and economic differences between the North and South continually intensified until finally reaching a climax in 1861 when the civil war started in earnest.

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    Missouri Compromise

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    the United States Congress passed the Missouri Compromise. Before it was passed the Northern states and Southern states had different ideas of the states. The North wanted to limit slavery‚ while the Southern states wanted more slavery. Missouri wanted to become a slave state in 1820‚ but the Northern states wouldn’t allow it. As a compromise‚ Missouri could be a slave state as long as Maine was added as its own free state‚ thus the Missouri Compromise. Along with these factors a rule of 36⁰30N was

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    Missouri Compromise

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    Missouri Compromise In 1819‚ the territory of Missouri applied for statehood. It was the first new state to be taken from the land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase. The issue of Missouri attempting to become a state sparked much debate and controversy. The debate in Congress was mainly about sectional power and not whether slavery was right or wrong. The people from the North disagreed with the added representation in Congress and in the Electoral College. Since Missouri would be a slave

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    Missouri Compromise

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    These failed compromises served purposes other than their intended ones. They served to “feed the extremist factions” in each of the divided sections of America. The deterioration of these compromises aided the progression of groups like the Radical Republicans‚ Know- Nothings‚ Free-Soil Party‚ and Abolitionists. One of the compromises that served to feed these factions was the Missouri Compromise. As stated before‚ this compromise debated on the admission Maine and Missouri as slave or free states

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    1750-1850

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    1750-1850: A brief survey Great Social Thinkers Inventions 1750-1800                                         1752 1755 1757 1758 1761 1769 1774 1775 1784 1785 1791 1792 1794 1796 1799 * Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod. * Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary * John Campbell invents the sextant. * Dolland invents a chromatic lens. * John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude. * James Watt

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    The Missouri Compromise

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    Emma Toomey AP US History Mr. Eschle- Period 7 10.16.12 Written Analysis #4 The Missouri Compromise had many effects on American culture‚ including an economic effect by prohibiting slavery in the unorganized territory north of Missouri’s southern border‚ a political suspicion between those representing the south and those representing the north as well as a balance of slave and free states‚ and had a social impact by creating a definite separation between “the North” and “the South” and also

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    1850-1900

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    Chapter 17-The West: Exploiting an Empire Time Period: 1850-1900 1. Beyond the Frontier -line of white settlement at MO timber country by 1840s What’s in the West? What land? -“The Great Plains”/Prairie Plains: rich soil and good rainfall (Wisconsin down to Texas) -High Plains: rough‚ semiarid (Montana down to NMex.) -Rockies: formidable barrier (Alaska to NMex.) -Western Basin: home to many NA‚ desert‚ held in by the Cascades and Sierra Nevada‚ MOST travelers here (Idaho and Utah)

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