The 1820 Missouri Compromise Slavery and the Civil War By Stephen Waters Research Task- Describe the role of the 1820 Missouri Compromise in the campaign against slavery! The 1820 Missouri Compromise played a large role in the campaign against slavery. In 1819 Missouri became a statehood and congress considered framing a state constitution‚ with this a representative attempted to add a anti-slavery legislation with it. This is what started the process of the campaign against slavery
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compromising decisions and actions made by those who opposed slavery during the events of the Missouri compromise and the compromise of 1850. These compromises were meant to stop or slow the spread of slavery to the northern states of the United States. The Missouri compromise included Missouri wanting to enter the union as a slave state. At that time there were eleven slave states and eleven free states. Missouri would have made the states uneven. A political action taken by the government to prevent
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The Missouri Compromise‚ in many ways made political conditions worse between the North and South. For a long time the North and South had been fighting about political issues such as slavery. The North believed that it was wrong to capture‚ enslave and ship Africans to America to work in harsh conditions for free for White owners. The South‚ on the other hand believed slavery was right and should be used for helping the economy and producing cash crops so the North could use the supplies to make
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Missouri Compromise The first ships with African Slaves arrived in America in the 1600s and the slave trade spread through the colonies and continued through the birth of the United States. With the expansion of cotton and other goods of agriculture through the South‚ more slaves were needed to continue production. But after the American Revolution‚ many American goods‚ including indigo and tobacco‚ lost their appeal because the British were less keen to only trading with the US. Many slaves that
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sectionalism in the country originating from events such as the Tariff of 1828 ‚ the National Bank‚ and the Missouri Compromise. Preceding the Missouri Compromise was the Tallmadge amendment. When the Tallmadge amendment was passed‚ the South was infuriated. The amendment decreed that the slave state of Missouri had to gradually free all of their slaves and prohibited any more slaves to be brought into Missouri before they could be admitted into the Union. This made slave-owning Southerners upset because they
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slave who was taken to Missouri from Virginia and sold. His new master then moved to Illinois (a free state) for a while but soon moved back to Missouri. Upon his master’s death‚ Scott claimed that since he had resided in a free state‚ he was consequentially a free man. The case eventually made it to the Supreme Court. As stated by Supreme Court Justice C. J. Taney‚ "In considering this...controversy‚ two questions arise: 1st was he sick‚ together with his family‚ free in Missouri by reason of his stay
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Illinois‚ a free state‚ and then Wisconsin territory‚ where the Missouri Compromise of 1820 prohibited slavery. Scott lived in Wisconsin with his master‚ Dr. John Emerson‚ for several years before returning to Missouri‚ a slave state. In 1846‚ after Emerson died‚ Scott sued his master’s widow for his freedom on the grounds that he had lived as a resident of a free state and territory. He won his suit in a lower court‚ but the Missouri supreme court reversed the decision. Scott appealed the decision
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The Missouri Compromise was created in 1820 to put an end to the conflict between the slave and non-slave states‚ however‚ it only caused the conflict to worsen. The dispute began to get worse and worse‚ eventually making the sectionalism between the North and South increase. The Missouri Compromise ignited sectionalism within the United States‚ which further contributed to a terrible War. In 1820‚ Missouri was petitioning to become a slave state‚ however‚ the imbalance of power in the south was
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his family. He moved to St. Louis with them in 1830 and was sold to John Emerson‚ a military doctor. They went to Illinois and the Wisconsin territory where the Missouri Compromise of 1820 prohibited slavery. Dred Scott married and had two daughters. John Emerson married Irene Sanford. In 1842‚ they all returned to St. Louis‚ Missouri. John Emerson died the next year. In 1846‚ Scotts sued Irene Emerson for their freedom. The Scott’s stay in free territories gave them the ability to sue for their
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solution cannot be reach here in Missouri? Across this whole world‚ there are those states that perhaps love working these black folks night and day. This is not right. I must find a solution to all this! Something must be done‚ who knows what will people want in the new vast territory we have just acquired. Will the territory allow slavery‚ or shall it be declared free? Ah yes‚ perhaps the inhabitants should be allowed to choose for themselves. Yes‚ this Missouri Compromise can achieve all that is well
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