...The tension between the North and the South grew rapidly in the 19th century. The Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas Nebraska Act are just some of the events that contributed to this. The reason that this tension grew was because during these events, the North and South had different views on the events. Sometimes the South would agree but the North would disagree and that caused problems. The Missouri Compromise was the starting point for this rapid growth. It took place in 1820 and permitted Maine to be admitted into the union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. When this happened, it maintained the balance of the Senate. Now, southern slave owners have a clear right to pursue escaped fugitives that went...
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...The effectiveness of political compromise in reducing sectional tensions was very poor, as demonstrated by the Missouri Compromise, the compromise of 1850, and the Kansas Nebraska act. These compromises created very little help in trying to repair the tensions. One of the first compromises to try to loosen the tensions was the Missouri Compromise. It all started when Missouri was pushing to become a state. At this time the controversy between having slave vs free states was major. There were 11 free states and 11 slave states. This was an even balance for the North and the South so, having Missouri come in as a free state would grant the North more power over the South. The politician Henry Clay came up with the grand idea of admitting another state, (Maine) as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. At the time this seemed brilliant, but really it still failed to loosen the tensions. This is shown when it is repealed by the Kansas Nebraska Act in...
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...Missouri Compromise of 1820 In 1819, Missouri requested statehood, and the freedom to become a slave state. This set off a heated debate, as the twenty two states then part of the union were evenly divided eleven and eleven between free and slave. While northerners, in accordance with their plan to slowly kill off slavery by not allowing new states to be free, were against the idea of Missouri being a slave state, while Southerners used a state's rights argument. They reasoned that, like the original thirteen states, new states should be able to decide the issue of slavery for themselves. In the end, both sides reached a compromise. In the immediate future, so the states were not unbalanced, Maine became a free state, and going forward no state north of the...
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...The cause for the Missouri Compromise to pass was by the Congress who wanted to disable the exclusive conflicts caused by the desire of Missouri for acceptance as a state authorized slavery in late 1819. The Missouri Compromise was made between the Northern, anti-slavery states, and Southern, pro-slavery states, to keep the conflicting states evenly numbered. This compromise assisted the balance between the two different sides. The southern slaveholding states did not want to turn out opposition as they would lose the power to preserve their commitments of slavery. The cause of this compromise was that Missouri wanted to join the Union as a slave state in 1819, but northern anti-slavery minorities in Congress were against it. The state of...
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...American Revolution, the issue of slavery was not resolved but continued due to the U.S Government’s policies, state conflicts, and social disputes. Compromises such as Missouri, 1850, and 3/5’s were contradicted by other policies such as Dred Scott and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The Missouri Compromise (docC) was an example of how the U.S. government tried to resolve issues concerning differences in opinions concerning slavery. There was a dispute over whether or not Missouri should enter as a slave state or a free state. A similar occurrence happened in further West during the Wilmot Proviso (docE). In both situations the government tried to find a simple fix rather than instilling a consolidated solution. Many southerners, such as Thomas Jefferson (docD), disagreed with the Missouri Compromise because they seen it as a poor decision made by the federal government when it should be a state issue....
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...The Missouri Compromise was an agreement in 1820 between the existing states and Congress about slavery. Tension had begun to rise between between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups within the US Congress and the people of the nation. It all boiled up to an insane amount when Missouri requested to become a slave state instead of a free state. This request, if followed through by Congress, would ruin the fragile balance between the existing slave and free states. At that time, there were eleven free states and eleven slave states and disrupting that balance would upset way too many people. To keep the peace between the people and Congress, Congress formulated a two-part compromise. Missouri would get their wish to become a slave state, but in return, Maine would be admitted as a free state. It was a simple trade off that ended up causing more problems than anyone could have seen coming. The second part of the compromise was an amendment that drew an imaginary line across the former Louisiana Territory and established a boundary between the free and slave states. This amendment and land remained this way until the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. The extremely rough debate over Missouri's application as a slave state lasted all the way from December...
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...The Missouri Compromise settled the question of slavery for many years in the United States. It's repeal would bring so much conflict that it would lead to the Civil War. Missouri applied for statehood on December 18, 1818. This created a huge problem because the Northern states refused to even allow another slave state to join the Union. A compromise developed when Maine applied for statehood in 1819. Maine could join as a free state to balance out Missouri joining as a slave state. By the year 1820, the compromise had been realized. The first step was that Missouri and Maine would be admitted to the Union, one as free and the others as slave. In 1845 the Missouri Compromise was revoked as part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The revoke was more impactful than the compromise itself. It effectively settled the question of slavery from 1820 to 1854, it's revoke began the sectarian conflict which eventually brought the United States into the Civil War....
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...In 1820 the state of Missouri became a slave state and Maine became a free state. This event took place to make sure the amount of slave states and free states were equal and it was soon became known as the Missouri Compromise. The Missouri Compromise was an important part of American history because it helped keep the union together. Three major people involved were Henry Clay, James Monroe, and Rufus King. Henry Clay played a very big role in the Missouri Compromise. He was born on April 12, 1777 in Virginia and died June 29, 1852 in Washington D.C. Clay was a lawyer, Kentucky Senator, and the speaker of the House of Representatives. While John Quincy Adams was in office Henry also served as his Secretary of State. Henry Clay was...
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...A recent visit to the Missouri History Museum changed my perspective on the city of St. Louis and the entire state of Missouri. Missouri has played a major role in the history of the United States of America in particular when it comes to the western expansion. The museum had an abundant amount of information about different aspects of Missouri history including but not limited to the Native American settlers, The Lewis and Clark expedition, The Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, The Missouri Comprise, Civil Rights acts, enslaved African Americans and even information down to one of the latest historically issues the Michael Brown case of Ferguson Missouri. I decided to focus more on The Missouri Compromise of 1820. The Missouri Compromise created a huge quarrel between the northern and southern states. The purpose of the Missouri Compromise was to conserve a balance between power in the Congress within the freed slave states and the non freed slave states. The southern states were against the Missouri Compromise and they argued that it evoked the Congress the power to create laws regarding slavery. The southern states relied on slaves economically because the...
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...With the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which defined the 36th parallel as the border for slave and free states, the growing controversy of slavery and its place in America was acknowledged, igniting the debate over slavery and the fight to keep the union intact, for the next 40 years. However, this line was not a fix-all, for as more territory was added to the US with the notable Texas annexation and the addition of Oregon Country in 1845 and the Mexican Cession of 1848, the struggle to keep the balance of the slave and free states led to an entirely new compromise, the Compromise of 1850, relying on a new idea of popular sovereignty introduced by Lewis Cass, which exercised the political doctrine that the people of federal territories should...
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...As the United States began to grow and spread into new territories, one of the biggest debates was where places were going to allow slavery and where places were not. Over time there were many different court cases and compromises that went through to help people try to work out where slavery would be legal. Some of the events that influenced these decisions were The Northwest Ordinance, The Missouri Compromise, and the Dred Scott Case. The Northwest Territory was a Confederacy surveyed and sold to settlers in in 1787, who later applied for statehood. Three of the states that were created from the Ordinance were Ohio (1803), Indiana (1816), and Illinois (1818). Due to the fact that settlers from all across other parts of America had come to the new Northwest, there had been many clashes of regional cultures. Through the debates of people, it was decided that there would not be slavery in the Northwest Territory, although there was a clause for fugitive slaves....
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...Federalism is the sharing of power between the central government and the state government. In the 19th century, the Northern and Southern Americans could not decide if slavery should be legal. The southern states were made up of a lot of farmland, and those that lived in the south were mainly farmers. Due to the majority of farms being in the south, most Southerners were in favor of slavery because they needed cheap help with labor on their farms. The northerners were more split on the issue of slavery. Because they did not need slave labor as much, some northerners felt indifferent about slavery. Others, especially after the publishing of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” felt that slavery was inhumane and morally corrupt. The Missouri Compromise was...
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...A major problem that led to the civil war was slavery, southerners have gained access to more territory and their economy solely depended on slaves. And there have always been argument between the North and Southern states if slavery should be retained or abolished. Their fights were mainly on economics, politics, and power. The Northerners were worried if the slave issue is not taken care of slaves would take jobs white workers might be hired to do. Prior to the Missouri Compromise, Missouri’s application to join the states as a slave state ignited a lot of arguments. Eventually leading to the Missouri Compromise. In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act completely challenged the Missouri Compromise, it violated the compromise which had kept the...
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...Dr. John Emerson took his slave, Dred Scott, from Missouri to Illinois and Minnesota where they resided from 1834 to 1838. Illinois and Minnesota are located in the territory north of 36° 30' and identified as free states under the Missouri Compromise. Scott returned to Missouri in 1838 and years later, Dr. Emerson died. Scott brought suit against Emerson’s widow in the Missouri courts, claiming his residency in free territory changed his status to free. The lower court decided in favor of Scott, but in 1852, the Missouri Supreme Court reversed the decision. Scott’s ownership was transferred to John Sanford, the brother of Mrs. Emerson’s new husband. The family filed a suit on Scott’s behalf against Sanford in the U.S. Circuit Court in Missouri, where Scott appealed to the Supreme Court on a writ of error. The ruling in the U.S. Circuit Court in Missouri was in favor of Sanford. Scott brought suit to the Supreme Court to decide on his status of citizenship and the rights he could receive from the Constitution. Issue Is a slave who was taken into free territory able to become a United States citizen and receive rights from the Constitution? Rule...
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...great idea of expanding the nation. The Missouri Compromise had divided the slave states and the free states once and for all. Sectionalism, placing the interests of one region ahead of the welfare of the nation as a whole, offers two great examples in which the country was split. The National Bank, which was proposed by Alexander Hamilton, brought up a lot of controversy in the south, as well as in the west. Not only did the National Bank disgruntle the southerners, but the Tariff of 1816, proposed by James Madison, did as well. Sectionalism challenged nationalism, but the latter remained strong among the American people. On December 2, 1823, President Monroe addressed a message to congress. In his message, James Monroe was informing the powers of the Old World that the American continents were no longer open to European colonization. He also stated that the outside powers shall not try to overthrow the newly independent republics in the Western Hemisphere. Any effort to extend European political influence into the New World would be considered by the United States "as dangerous to our peace and safety." At the same time, the United States would not involve itself in European affairs or interfere with existing colonies in the Western Hemisphere. These principles became known as the Monroe Doctrine. In 1819, settlers in Missouri requested admission to the Union. Its settlers came largely from the South, and it was expected that Missouri would be a slave...
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