Compromise Of 1850 Research Paper

The Compromise of 1850 & Turbulent 50's The Compromise of 1850 started with Henry Clay. Henry Clay presented a compromise to Congress on January 29, 1850. The issue and subsequent compromise were debated over this issue for 8 months prior by Clay, Daniel Webster, Senator from Massachusetts, and John C. Calhoun, senator from South Carolina, debated the compromise. With the assistance of Stephen Douglas, several bills were passed to get the compromise through Congress. There were several issues involved in this compromise. The Compromise also didn't have a direct method by which states would hold the elections that decided the issue of slavery for their territory. So it was left to Congress to pass individual laws like the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Which will be discussed later in this paper. So the Compromise left the elections issue unresolved, examples are: 1.) The United States had just recently acquired a substantial amount of land because of its war with Mexico. There needed to be a determination if the territory would allow slavery or be declared free. Jointly, there were talks of provisions to allow the inhabitants to decide for themselves. 2.) California had grown tremendously reversing the gold rush …show more content…
The territory was soon coined "bleeding Kansas" for the excessive violence that took place over the legislation. President Franklin Pierce sent Federal troops to Kansas to cease the violence and resist anti-slavery legislature, allowing for another election. Pro-slavery supports won and as before, were charged with election fraud. Subsequently, Congress would not recognize the constitution adopted by the pro-slavery supporters denying Kansas admittance as a state. Though, on January 29, 1861 Kansas was admitted as a free state after anti-slavery supporters outnumbered pro-slavery