There were many important Compromises between the years of 1820 and 1860, some that worked completely and some that didn’t. In the early nineteenth century, people were good at compromising and making things work for everyone. How long did perfect compromising actually last? Slavery began to split the nation apart, causing compromising to become hard to do. Slavery was one of the biggest problems between 1820 and 1860. Sometimes two states had to be added to the Union at the same time, to make things fair. The North and the South fought almost constantly over the issue of slavery, sometimes things were able to be worked out about it, but as the years passed, the problems with slavery and territory started to become too big to ignore or …show more content…
The issue the compromise was about was whether there should be slavery in the western territories. Maine wanted to be added to the Union, however, slavery was banned there. If Maine were to be added to the Union, it would upset the balance between free and slave states in the nation and the Senate. So, the Missouri Compromise, proposed by Senator Henry Clay, allowed Maine to enter the Union as a free state, and allowed Missouri to be entered into the Union as a slave state. However, the Missouri Compromise caused some problems. The compromise equaled the concerns and interests in the North and South, but the South was upset about how Congress gave itself the power to create and pass laws dealing with slavery. Much of the North was upset because Congress let slavery spread into another state. There were people who didn’t want to compromise, and others who did, such as Henry Clay. Clay wanted to keep the nation together. Henry Clay, a Senator, was someone who wanted to keep the nation together, so he gave a speech to the Senate in 1833 about how South Carolina cannot secede and become an independent state, and doesn't want to. “I say it is impossible that South Carolina ever desired for a moment to become a separate and independent state” (Doc A). For the people that were against slavery, they held anti-slavery conventions, talking about how awful slavery is and even called slave …show more content…
Douglas, was an important election that would, and did, go down in history. Lincoln had opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, created by Stephen Douglas, which lead him into becoming a Republican. Here, nobody was able to Compromise. He ran against Stephen Douglas, and won the election with getting one hundred eighty electoral votes, and Douglas getting twelve (Southern Democrat Breckinridge seventy-two, and Constitutional Union Bell getting thirty-nine) (Doc H). In this election, Lincoln and Douglas had some series of debates over slavery. Although Lincoln never exactly stated that he wanted to abolish slavery, much of the South believed he was an Abolitionist. At his speech in 1858 in Springfield Illinois, Lincoln wanted the nation to be one thing or another, meaning all free or all slave, because it couldn’t keep going on how it was, else it would fall apart. In his speech, Lincoln said, “...but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other” (Doc G). After Lincoln won the election, it had shocked the South, making them angry. After this, the first southern state seceded from the Union: South Carolina. Six other states then seceded out of the Union, following South Carolina: Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Georgia, and Louisiana. When giving his inaugural address, Lincoln stated that he was no threat to the seceded states and that he
In the years leading up to the Civil War, the Nation struggled to resolve many different sectional issues. These issues and conflicts produced a distinct series of crises and subsequent compromises made in attempts to unify the nation. Nevertheless, the pre-Civil War compromises from 1820 to 1860 only contributed to growing tensions over slave states’ rights. The first compromise of the 1800s that contributed to growing tensions over slaver and states’ rights would have to be the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
The Missouri Compromise however had effects larger than simply distributing the land. The Missouri Compromise would further prevent a larger conflict between the north, and south in the immediate future. This made both sides even more restless to fight for their respective causes. The compromise
Leslie Chihuahua United States History to 1877 11/13/2015 11:00-11:50 AM Missouri Compromise was an agreement from the House of Representatives to reach a median to keep slavery out of Missouri after all the tribulations it had caused before it became a state. Henry Clay, Speaker of the House made important decisions in order for Missouri to be admitted as a state that could impact American history. In 1819, slavery was a resourceful profit to slave owners and this sparked a sectional controversy in the country over the efforts to expand slavery into the new western territories. The country had 22 states, eleven free eleven slave, and the line between them were distinguished by the northern and western boundaries of Pennsylvania and the Ohio River. (Txt.
During this time they were several things that were happening. The Congress earlier passed it's the compromise that there would be a line which was named the 36° 30’ line, which slavery was not allowed to cross but Missouri wanted to enter the Union as a slave state. Is there anywhere to route to enter the slave state north. This was unfair to the northerners because the addition of Missouri as a slave state would unbalance the seats in Congress, so Maine wanted to enter the country as a free state, but they were not able to get enough votes until March 4 and it was entered as the second half of the Missouri compromise as part of the Missouri Compromise but Maine did not want to be included in the compromise. A man who lived in Maine wrote a poem about how main should not participate in the compromise because it was unhealthy and that they should just be allowed to become a free state, but even with their attempts main was still entered as the second half of the Missouri
The Missouri Compromise was necessary because the south wanted slavery to continue while the nation was growing. Most states in the North had outlawed slavery. However, the South did not want slavery to end because it was the foundation of the economy and plantations. So the Missouri Compromise was made to keep the balance of slave states and free states. Missouri joined the Union as a slave state and Maine joined as a free state.
In the era before the Civil War America was expanding westward. The Louisiana Purchase and other lands gained help to give America new land to expand on, but this leaded to issues with the division of free and slave states. As Missouri became a state they wanted to become a slave state, which caused trouble. In order to keep equilibrium between the states, Congress came up with the Missouri Compromise of 1820.The Missouri Compromise made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state. The Treaty also made a line within the Louisiana Territory to keep slavery from moving up the
The Missouri Compromise came as a two part solution to the admission problem. First, Missouri gained admission to the Union as a slave state, with a provision that portions of
The Compromise of 1877 led to a lack of control of the south that allowed the KKK to start their stream of terror Lynching was often well publicized and profitable. Living in fear was common for blacks at the time. This lead to the Great Migration, blacks started to move North moving into cities About 6 million blacks moved to the north hoping for jobs and a better life however in doing so they were treated with segregation. Segregation lead to black communities. These communities started to build churches and schools.
The Compromise of 1850 was an attempt by the U.S Congress to settle divisive issues between the North and South, including slavery expansion, apprehension in the North of fugitive slaves, and slavery in the District of Columbia. The Compromise of 1850 failed because Senator John C. Calhoun from the South and Senator William Seward from the North could not agree on what Henry Clay was putting down. Part of the compromise was to make California a slavery free state which benefits the North, and enforcing a stricter fugitive slave law which benefits the South. Both the North and South opposed what the other was benefiting from. What sparked the failure of the Compromise was the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
The Missouri Compromise was made as an attempt to deal with the debate that had been going on about slavery. It lasted thirty-four years, but never truly made the North orouth totally happy with the situation. Although the Missouri Compromise did push back the debate on slavery in Missouri, it did not solve the problem as a whole. The tension between the North and South was, in fact reduced for a period of time. Once the Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional, the tension once again grew.
One of the compromises made in the Constitutional Convention is the three-fifths compromise. In this compromise, the southerners wanted to add slaves to the population of the state they lived in. If slaves were included in their state’s population, that state would be able to add more representatives in the House of Representatives. Northerners did not agree with that statement because slaves did not have the right to vote. After the delegates compromised, they agreed that only three-fifths of the slave’s population would be counted into the state’s population.
Missouri wanted to join the union as a slave state, but needed a way to do this that would be acceptable to the North. The government decided that Missouri could become a slave state, but only if Maine could become a free state. “At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. Admission of Missouri as a slave state would upset that balance.” http://www.history.com/topics/missouri-compromise.
Lincoln had made it clear in his House Divided speech that the Union would crumble if the nation was half slave, half free. Lincoln addressed the issue of the Confederate States of America's formation after southern states seceded from the Union. Despite his efforts to prevent the southern states from separating, it eventually led to the Civil War. But he did not give
In the early nineteenth century, series of compromises had been made in order to keep the states unified rather than divided. The overall reason for the sectionalism in the nation had all started from slavery. Compromises passed by Congress were used to keep the nation unified hoping to resolve the political disputes by trying to appeal to the South, by feeding into their “need” of slaves. However, political disputes could no longer be resolved by compromise due to different social views, lack of government interference, and the belief over whether the north or the south is more superior. Therefore, from 1820-1860, compromises could no longer help solve political disputes.
Class, The Missouri Compromise did not effectively deal with the sectional conflict over slavery. This is because the compromise did not result in a definite solution that left both sides pleased but instead left neither side content (Kennedy 235). If the sectional conflict was resolved, this could have helped to prevent the secession of the southern states in the American Civil War, or this could have caused the American Civil War to start sooner rather than later. I believe that the North got the better side of the deal. At this time, the North and the South were worried about political and economic balances, and it seems like this compromise gave the North an advantage (Kennedy 234).