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    I am beyond outraged! Congress had no right to add the Fugitive Slave Act to the Compromise of 1850 back in September 18‚ 1850. The act is requiring that everyone -- no matter where you reside in the U.S.-- is to apprehend any runaway slaves including those who are free. I still do not understand why it is that people think slavery is right when in fact it is WRONG! This issue made abolitionists‚ like myself‚ help create Personal Liberty Laws‚ which allowed the Fugitive Slave Act to be nullified

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    Several compromises were made in order to avoid tensions rising such as the Missouri Compromise. By the 1850s compromise no longer seemed possible. The Democrats had become a party increasingly rooted in the Southern states‚ with the Northern political scene in a state of disarray. Out of this turmoil‚ emerged the

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    way the Southerners reacted to the Wilmot Proviso was that they were mad because the government was taking what Southerners thought was their property. 3. What was Stephen A. Douglas’s role in passing the compromise of 1850? Stephen A. Douglas’s role in passing the compromise of 1850 was he was trying to make it a law. The Crisis Deepens 4. How did the northerners react to the fugitive slave act? The way that the northerners reacted to the fugitive slave act was that they thought they

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    from the political system but they turned to the only replacement they believed was left to them: secession‚ a political decision that led directly to war. The Compromise of 1850 was one of the events that eventually led up to the Civil War. The Compromise of 1850 was the Fugitive Slave Act‚ the ten-year armistice established by the compromise that only pushed the nation further against slavery‚ making many in the South fear the end of slavery‚ and many in the North crave the end of slavery‚ the very

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    1820 The Compromise in Missouri. In 1803‚ the Congress was obliged to come up with a policy to give way to the growth of slavery in the western region. Missouri’s request for statehood as a slave state sparked an unpleasant countrywide discussion. The Congress reached a succession of agreements that became known as the Missouri Compromise. Missouri was acknowledged as a slave state and Maine was acknowledged as a free state

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    to many people were immigrating to the nation according to “America’s population growth” which is a picture that shows the years and the population of those years. America’s population grew from seventeen million in 1840 to twenty-three million in 1850‚ 35% increase in only ten Years which lead to over populated cities in the east which is shown on a map of “ America’s population density of 1820” which shows the map of Americas territory and the density of the population. It shows that most of the

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    the anti-federalist party that eventually became Andrew Jacksons democratic party going up against the Whigs. Instead it being Democrats vs Whigs it was North vs South. Neither side could agree on anything to the point that neither side like the compromises that they were given. The Hamiltonian system created by the federalist Alexander Hamilton caused problems with the Jeffersonian Republicans. Jefferson and Madison disagree with Hamilton’s list because they thought his views were pro-British. Jefferson

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    Cabin was published in 1852‚ just after the Compromise of 1850. Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe‚ who was African-American‚ it was a fictional novel‚ but addressed the very real main theme of anti-slavery. It was an impassioned piece of work that showed the harsh reality of the life of a slave. Written so soon after the Compromise of 1850‚ it was a controversial piece‚ and scandalized slavery supporters‚ who heavily criticized it. The Compromise of 1850 was meant to diffuse tensions between slave

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    Pre-Civil War Study Guide Missouri Compromise- (Louisiana Purchase) Issue – Mo. wants to come in as a slave state. Problem- This would upset the balance of free and slave states in Congress Compromise (Henry Clay)- • Let Mo. come in as a slave state • Let Maine come in as a free state • No slavery above the 36 30 line of latitude Mexican War/Mexican Cession – As a result of the war America got California and much of the SW. (Mexican Cession)

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    drastically. During the period of 1850‚ until 1861 when the Confederate States of America was formed‚ the union was clearly divided between the North and South. Northerners‚ during mid-century America believed in the preservation of the undissolvable Union. When the Constitution was framed in 1787‚ the founding fathers were concerned about leaving Britain and becoming a Union‚ as opposed to the issue of slavery that would later prevail. Henry Clay created the Compromise of 1850‚ which helped solve the

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