Compromise

The Compromise of 1820, also known as the Missouri compromise, was a bill that was formed to create boundaries that split the United States between the Northern free states (non-slavery), and the Southern slave states. The boundary line for slave states and non-slave states was latitude 36°30′(see map below). At the time the northern states economy was industrial, and the southern states economy was more agricultural. For this reason the southern states relied heavily on the use of slaves to…

two-part Missouri Compromise came into being. The compromise was that Missouri would be allowed to enter the Union as a slave state as long as another free state was also admitted to keep the balance of power in Congress. The second part was to set the future borders of the Unites States within the Louisiana Purchase establishing a free zone and a slave zone with the hopes that this would settle the issue of what states could be free or slave holding in the future. This compromise only…

Missouri Compromise (1820) A Free State: (before the Civil War) A state in the United States in which slavery was illegal (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/free%20state). A Slave State: Any of the 15 states of the Union in which slavery was legal before the Civil War. (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/slave+state) In 1819, a huge debate grew in Congress as to whether or not to make the new state of Missouri and free state or a slave state. Missouri wanted to become part of the union…

The Mexican War ended and the Missouri Compromise On February 2nd of 1848, the war between Mexico and America came to an end at the city of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The war lasted for 2 years. Mexico and America was fighting for the land of California and New Mexico and who would receive it. In 1844, Democrat James Polk won the election and became president. During his presidency he pushed to add Texas to the union. It was added in 1845 and during this time southerners pushed to also add…

The Significance of the Missouri Compromise and the Monroe Doctrine The Missouri Compromise and the Monroe Doctrine were two of the most important documents written in the presidency of James Monroe (Shi 2016). Both were received much debate and mixed reviews, but have great significance in American History. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 came about as a result of fear in the South that states added from the western territories would be admitted as free states and cause an imbalance (Shi 2016).…

was an extensive and a very difficult issue all over the nation. Furthermore, Missouri Compromise was a compromise when Missouri entered the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state and this law prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36° 30´ latitude line in 1854. The slave trade became more profitable in pro- slave states after this compromise. Subsequently, the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which is an act passed by the U.S.…

Senate. This did not give an advantage to either the slave states or free states, which both sides were desperately vying for. Neither side was pleased with the deadlocked Congress before, so this compromise settled close to nothing. The one issue it did resolve was the fate of new states. The Missouri Compromise declared that any new state, other than Missouri, north of 36° 30’ were to disallow slavery. This was a massive victory for the north states, as it deemed far more land to be free than…

abolitionist feelings and movements throughout the nation. Slavery resulted in many differing opinions in America, especially between the Northern and Southern states. Laws such as the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 were strengthened during the creation of the Compromise of 1850 in order to satisfy Southern proslavery beliefs. In turn, they also sparked more hostility to the abolitionist views in the North. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was just another reason to divide the Union between North and…

When it comes to compromise, what is the first thing that comes out from your mind? Is it an advantage or disadvantage? The answers to this question vary from people to people, regions to regions. People who regard compromise as an advantage, say that compromise helps reach a mutual agreement among conflicting groups. Other people might disagree, arguing that compromise is unfair to those who have already been in the upper position. Deborah Tannen’s article, “ Why is ‘Compromise’ Now a Dirty…

many years to count. The fact that surrounds the Compromise of 1850 is that it allowed for an ongoing era of peace that was established by the 1820 Missouri Compromise. The Missouri Compromise settled the dispute between North and South and brought peace for nearly three decades and drew an imaginary line dividing the country in two. In the north slavery was not allowed and in the south slavery was allowed. The particular issue at hand with the Compromise of 1850 is the divisions over slavery in…