Compromise of 1850

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…

issue of slavery was at the pinnacle of political tension due to the controversial Fugitive Slave Bill of 1850. This bill was part of the Compromise of 1850 which included five laws designed to preserve the balance of power between the free and slave states. The Compromise of 1850 declared new territory to be free states and eliminated the slave trade, but not slavery itself. However, the Compromise authorized a refined Fugitive Slave Act that enraged Northerners because it required the…

The Missouri Compromise discussed the situation of slavery of the states; it prohibited slavery north of the parallel 36⁰30 of the country. California would enter the United States as a free state and Texas would enter as a slave state. When California entered as a free state, people worried about the economic profit they would lose without slaves, consequently they decided to extend the compromise. With the conflict of the slave states, Texas was being…

Many issues in slavery led to the Compromise of 1850 or otherwise the Fugitive Slave Act. The Fugitive Slave Act was written by Congress in 1850, the purpose was to solve problems about slavery. One of the many problems was to the undecided status of the state of California. The south wanted California to be a slave state, but the north was trying to stop the expansion of slavery. (Give me liberty). Eventually California became a free state, but Texas become a slave state and the United States…

between free and equal states. This was the beginning of sectionalism in America. In 1819, a problem occurred. Missouri’s 1819 request to become a slave state threatened to destroy the balance between slave states and free states (Clay, Missouri Compromise). At that time, Monroe who was president wrote, "The idea was that if the whole arrangement, to this effect, could be secured, that it would be better to adopt it, than break the union" (Monroe, James Monroe Papers: Series 1, General…

The sectional divide between the North and South continued to grow dramatically in the years preceding the Civil War. Before the war, the North had continued to become more industrialized than the South. Northerners began to want ready-made shoes and clothing and that stemmed from the creation of factories during the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution came about in the 1820s when factories and clothing mills were created in New England and the use of factories grew from there. The…

South became polar opposites before the civil war with compromises and the influence of the Mexican-American war. The South supported the Gag Resolution, with all anti-slavery cases being tabled, and the Fugitive Slave Law, with slaves denied a jury trial and commissioners paid for not allowing the slave to be freed. The North encouraged the Wilmot Proviso, which acknowledged the southern desire for slave states in Mexico, and the Compromise of 1850, making the senate unbalanced in the favor of…

In nineteenth century America, slavery was a colossal source of tension and discord. Many southern Democrats based their livelihoods on the very existence of slavery. In the early 1800’s, the Abolition of the Slave Trade made it illegal for anyone to import slaves from outside of the United States. Furthermore, the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 rebooted the economic preeminence of slavery in the United States. Cotton was becoming a crucial cash crop in these newly inherited western territories, and…

In 1845, President Tyler annexed Texas as a slave state because it was below the 36°30’ line created by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. By adding a new, large slave state, southern power was increased while this addition in no way benefited the North. When Polk, a democrat, took office in 1844 he promised that he would acquire Oregon. He originally planned to take the whole…

Stephen Douglas: Abolitionist, Proslaveryite, or both? Francesca Scola Stephen Douglas's purposeful political ambiguity and avid pursuit of self-aggrandisement demonstrated through his stance on the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Lecompton Constitution, and Freeport Doctrine, ultimately cost him the 1860 election. Through his stance on the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Lecompton Constitution, and Freeport Doctrine, Stephen Douglas’s purposeful ambiguity and avid pursuit of self-aggrandisement ultimately cost…