Compromise of 1850

Earlier this week, after thirty-four hours of non-stop shelling, US Army Major Robert Anderson surrendered control of Fort Sumter to Confederate General PGT Beauregard. Just yesterday, Virginia became the latest domino to fall in Southern secession. That makes eight states now, and rumors continue to swirl that Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina are sure to follow. After years of hostile legislation, menacing Northern abolitionists, and now the election of Abraham Lincoln, the South has…

By the 1850s, the two parties system was in crisis because moderate compromises such as the Missouri Compromise in 1820s by the “great pacificator,” Henry Clay of Kentucky could no longer appease both sides’ extreme radicals, as the territories kept getting westward expanded and ordained by the doctrine of Manifest Destiny. (Brands, p.295) The next generation of Congressmen such as Wilmot Proviso’s argument and Lewis Cass’s “Popular Sovereignty” failed to forge compromises over the Republican’s…

that caused incessant bickering between the northern abolitionists and the pro-slavery southerners that resulted in a divided union. Tensions started to build drastically after the Fugitive Slave Act was introduced by Congress as part of the Compromise of 1850. In addition, the outcome of the Dred Scott v. Sandford case angered many people causing the northerners to desire to ban slavery everywhere…

happen. With the many pressing issues, events and compromises happening, the outbreak of the Civil War had finally begun. In 1820 Missouri and Maine were both in the process of becoming states. At the time there were eleven free states, and eleven slave states in the US. The senate wanted balance, and Henry Clay decided to propose the Missouri compromise. The Missouri compromise would make Maine a free state and Missouri a slavery state. The compromise also stated that the imaginary line…

into the war he had no other option then to create the Emancipation Proclamation. Even before the Proclamation was signed there were several compromises set in place…

At some point in a person’s life, they get the option to affiliate themselves with a certain political party. They may base this decision by how they were raised, peer pressure from their surrounding environments, or solely based on their own opinions from what they learn in school or from other resources. What makes political parties important? When the founders of the United States Constitution drafted the Constitution, they did not foresee political parties. However, they did envision other…

Civil War Looking back at history, it would be easy to say that if someone had done something differently, then the major conflict would have been avoided. Putting oneself in their position is a completely different story. Most of the people involved in major events in history did what they could to prevent to inevitable. The Civil War was just that: inevitable. The United States was bound to run into the conflicts that it did being a newer Country. Physical change and conflicts…

the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, America had obtained western territories. However, this presented a problem: as these new grounds would be welcomed as states, would they be free states or slave states? To work around this, Congress passed the Compromise of 1850 which essentially made California free and allowed the people to pick in Utah and New Mexico. This ability of a state to decide whether it would permit slavery was called popular…

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Destiny emerged to mask the real intentions behind American expansionism in the 19th century. Comparable to how the term “Manifest Destiny” originated, through the acquisition of new land post-Mexican-American War, which directly resulted in the Compromise of 1850 and further caused problems with slavery and inevitably fueled a Civil War, is Ahab and his greed/madness which has drove him to seek vengeance on a force which is incapable of being controlled in…