Also the Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time‚ the United States contained twenty-two states‚ evenly divided between slave and free. The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850‚ which defused a four-year political confrontation
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Essay Outline I. A. B. II. A. B. III. A. B. IV. A. B. V. A. B. Source A: Events Leading to Disunion • 1820 - Missouri Compromise: The legislation prohibited slavery in the newly acquired Louisiana Territory above the 36°30’N latitude line‚ admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state‚ and Maine as a free state in order to maintain the balance of slave and free states in
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new territories. The map explains how much land was acquired and the spread of slavery throughout the years of 1790 to 1860. The Missouri compromise admitting Missouri into the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state‚ but also stating slavery would be prohibited anywhere north of the southern boundary of Missouri in the future. The Missouri compromise had initially handled the status of slavery before 1846‚ from the procurement of the Louisiana purchase‚ which was the first large purchase
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states or a free states. The North valued the abolition of slavery while the South thrived on slavery. Many compromises were created due to this conflict between two
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solidify a combination of highly sensitive political forces into a strong and compelling movement. This new political party‚ with its history changing platform‚ arose out of a long and complex sequence of events. In the 1850s America’s culture was crumbling. Decades of political compromise and avoidance on the issue of slavery had kept an uneasy peace. The Mexican-American war added over 500‚000 square miles to the U.S. and rekindled sectional competition for slave versus non-slave territory. Ralph
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Sumter‚ and the war was ended by the Confederate Armies surrendering in 1865. The slavery debate revolved around many vital issues. The slavery debate will be discussed through the growing friction between the Confederacy and the Union‚ the Compromise of 1850‚ the Dred Scott case‚ as well as the Lincoln-Douglas debates. The Union was industrialized and had a much better economy‚ opposed to the Confederacy
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of political debates in the year 1858 between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln challenged Douglas in a campaign for one of Illinois’ two United States Senate seats. Lincoln did lose the election‚ but arguably these debates are what led him to his presidency. There are three aspects of these debates that I would like to cover here and they are the causes‚ contents‚ and results. Stephen A. Douglas was a member of Congress
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Congress continued to play the compromise game in 1820 and 1850 to maintain an equal number of free and slave votes in the Senate (where every state had two votes). Following the Mexican-American War (1846-1848)‚ a series of bills was developed that was intended to settle many of the difficulties presented by slavery and the surrounding controversial issues. The Fugitive Slave Act was part of the group of laws referred to as the "Compromise of 1850." In this compromise‚ the antislavery advocates
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As with all great conflicts in history‚ it was not one factor but rather a multitude of issues that led to the breakdown of compromise during the 19th century and eventually to the Civil War. The government of the period was entirely content to sweep the issue of slavery under the rug‚ contrasting sharply with the strongly polar feelings of the nation‚ with the South wanting to expand the ‘peculiar institution’ and the North beginning to see it as a moral dilemma. The combination of these contradictory
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Part I Point Possible: 80 Of the following three questions‚ answer two of your choice. 1. In an 1845 editorial about Texas Annexation‚ newspaper editor John O’Sullivan argued that it was the "manifest design of providence" that the United States occupy all territory in the continent. Manifest Destiny‚ as the concept came to be known‚ swept proponents enthusiastically into its wake and left others concerned about the future. Go to Manifest Destiny (Links to an external site.) at PBS Online. Read its
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