Compromise of 1850

not been viewed by many as a feasible option for America’s future; however, the precedent set in 1820 by the Missouri Compromise, that the country should engage in an endless political balancing act to perpetuate peace, became difficult to maintain long-term. Compelling sectional fears and differences, intensified by the increased popularity of the abolition movement in the 1850s, expedited the arrival of a rupture that, in retrospect, seemed almost inevitable. Principle among these differences…

ordered a warship to Charleston and strengthened the federal forts. Jackson also developed a force bill, which allowed the President to use military force to make sure acts of Congress were followed through (Brinkley, 207). Henry Clay came up with a compromise to ease the tension and to avoid violence. His idea was to lower the tariff gradually so the tariff would reach the same level it was in 1816 by 1842. On March 1, 1833, both the force bill and the compromised were passed and signed by…

Before 1860 the American government had always settled its disagreements with compromise. The Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas Nebraska act are all instances where there were disagreements settled with compromise. This worked until the tension over slavery started to result in violence. By the year 1860 it seemed that nobody was willing to compromise. This was because there was no more room for compromise with slavery, the growing hatred of it in the North meant it had…

what it currently is and without him the course of the nation could have been forever changed. Henry Clay and his political achievements may not be as well-known as others today. However, his major plans and policies, like the Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850, had major impact on the United States and possibly saved the Union. Therefore, Henry Clay is the most important figure in American History. Henry Clay…

In the 1850’s the South’s economy in the plantations was all about cotton. After the invention of the cotton gin, cotton production rapidly increased, which, in turn, increased the need for slaves. The South’s cotton production also had a big part in Britain’s…

a slave state. The Wilmot Proviso poked an issue that had been festering since the temporary solution, the Missouri Compromise of 1819-1821. Although the Proviso was withheld through President James K. Polk convincing Wilmot, it had already stoked the fire provoking secession and the Civil War. Another act against slavery that contributed to the Civil War was the Compromise of 1850’s Fugitive Slave Act. The Fugitive Slave Act allowed slave catchers to kidnap liberated blacks from ‘free’ states…

During the 1800’s, the constitution was suppose to establish America as one nation, but instead the constitution created sectional discord and tension and contributed to the failure of the Union. Slavery in the 1800’s was exceedingly cruel, African Americans were thought of as property, were not allowed to have rights,were kept in horrendous living conditions and were treated unfairly. Sectionalism, when one’s views are based on where they are from, divided America into two sections, the north…

When Wilmot proposed and submitted his amendment, he did not foresee that the debate he unleashed would end up in Civil war just fifteen years later. A lot of controversies spurred up, and congress attempted to address these issues with the Compromise of 1850, but the fugitive Slave Act and the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin hardened northern sentiments against slavery an confirmed southern suspicions of northern ill will. Americans could no longer continue its journey as a nation half slave…

between the regions for more land. Each wanted to expand to the west. Unrest and tensions grew stronger between the two sides which inevitably resulted in the Civil War. Compromises made along the way (Missouri Compromise, 3/5 's compromise, Compromise of 1850) The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was the first of the compromises that were intended to calm the tensions over the…

the writers of the Constitution that slavery would die on its own. This would not happen the growth of cotton production following the invention of the cotton gin. The framers of the Constitution struggled with the issue of slavery. The 3/5ths compromise and the fugitive slave law were introduced into the Constitution to placate the sectional differences between the North and the South. This would give the South a larger portion of control in Washington due to the counting of slaves as part of…