Compromise of 1850

Abraham Lincoln was preceded by the anti-slavery and abolition movement, territorial expansion, expansion of slavery, as well as a look onto the figureheads of one of America’s deadliest and well-known battles in history, the Civil War. The Missouri Compromise, occurring…

The beginning of slavery started in the early 1600’s. The portages traveled to Africa to kidnap and take away slaves for the Americas. They started by buying soldiers for guns and some even sold out their own tribesmen. Men and woman were torn away from their families and most of them never saw them again. Some slaves died in the Middle Passage before they made it to America. Slaves were used in many different ways, some worked in the field, and some worked in the house. Slaves created a huge…

American nation and lead to the fighting over the future of slavery. There were many factors that caused the American Civil War in 1861, such as the Kansas Nebraska Act, the Compromise of 1850, the Transcontinental Railroad, and the Presidental Election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, which formed a new political party. In the 1850’s, two key events were primary causes of the Civil War: the Dred Scott Decision and the Abolition movement and it’s literature. Northerners were confronted with the…

sovereignty. The citizens demanded to have a voice on what believed was right and wanted to make the decision themselves. A long awaited solution surfaced once the Compromise of 1850 was introduced. It stated that California would be free state while Utah and New Mexico would decide if they wanted to be a slave or free state. This Compromise encouraged the idea of people wanting to make the decision themselves and voting on…

any age. Slaves worked on plantations usually owned by rich families. While they are there they are forced to work in fields form early in the morning to late in the evening no matter the temperature. The North then gave up on Slavery during the 1850’s. The North was modernizing…

conflict between the north and south about slave territory. Since there were no states to determine the North and South borders, the Missouri compromise of 1820 said that all states above Arkansas Territory were slave-free. The debate was argued for over thirty years, in January 1850 a bill was presented that is known as the compromise of 1850. The bill saying the territories of New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah were defined while leaving the question of slavery off the table. …

The expansion of slavery fueled the desire for american conquests in Cuba and Hawaii, the seizure of Mexican Territory located below the line of the Missouri Compromise, and the removal of the cherokee from their southern homelands. Southerners were ecstatic about gaining southern territories in which they could use slaves. First eyeing Cuba in 1854, americans attempted to add the territory as a slave state. However, the proposal was shot down by northern abolitionists. Meanwhile Hawaii was…

Harriet Beecher Stowe 's 1852 novel Uncle Tom 's Cabin, an overnight hit in the North stirring Northerners to the predicament of Southern slaves, was banned in the South. The book was especially effective because of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, which prevented both Northerners and Southerners to assist runaway slaves—a law that disturbed even the individuals who had demonstrated little sensitivity for those looking to abolish the institution of slavery. The "Bleeding Kansas"…

un-tranquility. However, to calm much of the tension down, the Compromise of 1850 was passed. The compromise stated that California would join the Union as a free state and to balance it, the newly acquainted Texas be joined as a slave state. The topic of new land gain and slavery would eventually lead the way to the great Civil War. The tensions between North and South were seen growing in the political parties. Following the Compromise of 1850, the nation 's two major parties: the Whigs and…

would agree that there are four critical events prior to 1861, that were the main causes of the worst war on American soil. I firmly believe that the creation of the cotton gin and the agricultural growth of cotton crops, the failure of The Compromise of 1850, Bleeding…