Compromise of 1850

The Civil War was inevitable because the North and South both had very different economies, the social and political developments separated them, and they tried to compromise multiple times but they failed, armed conflict was inevitable. Eli Whitney’s cotton gin speed the process of separating the seeds out of the cotton and this facilitated a boom and it became the leading export in the US. Cotton was an ideal crop to grow because it was easy to grow and it could be stored for long periods of…

There were several events that led up to the clash of opposing sides. The Civil War was without a doubt inevitable, with its conflict of cultures. Slavery was the center of the souths economy and culture, they relied of slaves to keep their world spinning. While the North had ninety percent industrial capacity, dozens of weaponry factories and, not to forget twenty two thousand miles of track that connected farms and factories to forts and bases; this is one of the reasons the North did not need…

issue of slavery was the primary cause of it. However, it was certain political and social issues, which concerned slavery, that had really provoked it to arise. One of the main issues that prompted the U.S. Civil War to begin was the Missouri Compromise. In 1820, Missouri had aspired to become a state. At the time, this was deemed…

Fillmore started his political profession in the counter Masonic gathering, however changed to the Whig Party through his relationship with Henry Clay. He got to be VP under President Zachary Taylor, expecting the administration after Taylor's demise in 1850. As the thirteenth U.S. president, Fillmore was in charge of driving open Japan to exchange with the Treaty of Kanagawa. Millard Fillmore was conceived in extraordinary destitution in a log lodge on January 7, 1800, in Locke Township, New…

Although there were many causes of the Civil War, racism was one of the most impactful. Racism tore the country apart. Many compromises that were made had to do with some form of racism, most commonly, black people and slavery. A number of these compromises lead to the unjust treatment of black people, which became a political and moral dispute around the 1830’s when abolitionists and slave owners feuded over slavery. One of the most known slave trials in history is the one of Dred Scott vs…

with former president Martin van Buren of the Free-Soil Party, who aimed at preserving the Western land for the whites only (“Vermilya”). Taylor defeated Cass by a narrow margin, but suddenly died in 1850…

nineteenth century were trying to reach for compromise to solve their political disputes, but by 1860 compromise seemed unattainable. The years between 1820 and 1860 were a time of vast change for the newly free colonies and each citizen had different ideas on what advancements from there would look like. All the disputes revolved around one thing: slavery. The issue proved to be explosive by 1860 when the nation realized the Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850, which were passed to…

gaining land began to show the different the Americans views on slavery. Americans could not decide whether slavery should move westward as the country expanded or if it should stay in the states it was currently in. There were many attempts to compromise and keep the peace, however, this ended up driving a wedge further into the difference between the free states views and the slave states views. Overall, the Mexican War and its aftermath led to further disagreements about slavery between…

The Fugitive Slave Act was part of a group of laws that are referred to as the Compromise of 1850. As part of the Fugitive Slave Act, antislavery advocates were able to have California admitted as a free state and they also gained the prohibition of slave trade in the District of Columbia. The existence of the Fugitive Slave Act played a big role to the end of slavery. It also encouraged the continued operation of the Underground Railroad, a network of over 3000 homes and stations that helped…

During the antebellum era, the multitude of pressing issues of slavery, representation and other controversies were settled by way of compromise. But by 1860, this was no longer feasible because so many disagreements and heat between the North and the South had occurred. Consequently, the hullabaloo led to civil war. Though manifest destiny was becoming a reality via westward expansion, it triggered the start of disagreements slavery would bring. In 1819 the United States contained eleven…