There were a few issues that threatened the survival of the early American republic, one of the first problems America faced, it’s breaking with the United Kingdom and establishing a republic government the size of the United States (Ellis, p. 11). Many problems arose as the new nation was …show more content…
The founders heard both sides of the conflict, one suggesting the congress the Declaration of Independance as a guide for the compromise saying “all men were created equal”, whereas the opposing counsel argued that Biblically it was allowed and that if abolished the Southern States, the most profitable in the nation, would collapse without its free labor force (Ellis, p. 110-111). The compromise for this issue was that the States had the right to declare whether they wanted to be free or slave state. In the end what this forced upon the this baby nation was a ideological and geographically split nation, making this comprise the being of the end leading to the Civil War in 1861 and the abolishment of Slavery . Depending on your point of view this compromise was a success since it lead to a resolving in the slavery issue, but if it was meant to end all conflict all it did was lead our country into the biggest conflict within our borders in the history our