Compromise of 1850

The events will be ranked from last to first. Starting with the Compromise of 1850, John Brown raid, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Dred Scott Decision, The Kansas-Nebraska Act, and finally the Election of 1860. This order is based on my opinion and the order may vary from person to person. The Compromise of 1850, since president Zach Taylor died, the man next in line, Millard Fillmore wanted the deal done. Clay was the head of the compromise, it stated California was a free state, no restrictions on…

slaves. The declaration was also the gateway to the five compromises. The first being the Bill of rights. The Bill of rights is the first part of twenty seven amendments. Next was the three fifths compromise is basically telling all the states where they stand. Following the three fifths compromise, was The Missouri Compromise of 1820. In which Missouri was announced a slave state, and Maine a free state. Not long after came The Compromise of 1850 which consisted of five major bills passed by…

Kansas- Nebraska Act the Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery from the latitude 36 degrees 30’ N. Any state above this line was a free state, any state below this line was a state for slavery. In the North Congress made laws against slavery. In the South Congress made laws for slavery. Northern’s must return escaped slaves to owners. The Kansas- Nebraska Act was a compromise to reduce tensions and give a solution to slavery and expansion of railroads. The compromise bought time, but it…

The Civil War fought from 1861-1865 was rough on citizens all around the country of America, especially those from the south, as the Civil War was also called the War of Southern Independence. Throughout these four years, the Southern and Northern ends of the country fought recklessly for bloodshed practically against each other. For the first eighteen months of the war, federal soldiers fought solely to uphold the Constitution and preserve the nation (Roark et al). As the world’s first modern…

commonly known as the three-fifths compromise, in the Constitution came about as a result of arguments about how the framers were going to decide how many seats each state got in the House of Representatives. It was decided that seats would be granted based on population size. As would obviously benefit them, the south wanted their slaves counted as people in the population count. Those who opposed slavery only wanted free persons to be counted. The compromise reached counted slaves as…

forefront of politics, the North didn’t want slavery to expand, and the South was in opposition. Eventually, Henry Clay came up with the Missouri Compromise, which for the time being resolved the tension. Rising tension became a trend throughout Manifest Destiny and the rest of the Antebellum period. In the period circa 1845-1861, the various issues and compromises made both sides angry at the other, therefore propelling the Civil War into existence. To the North, the allowance of slavery to…

The Missouri Compromise was proposed by James Monroe to allow the state of Missouri to join the Union as a slave state; however, the "compromise" was that an imaginary line would be drawn at 36" 30', and all states north of that line (except Missouri) would be Free states. As slavery was beginning to consume the nation, Nat Turner led the bloodiest slave rebellion in American history. William Lloyd Garrison, in an attempt to stamp out slavery, published his antislavery newspaper The Liberator;…

Chap 13 What ideas did the term Manifest Destiny reflect? Did it cause historical events, such as the new political support for territorial expansion, or was it merely a description of events? For the next two decades, the professional politicians who managed the Second Party System avoided policies, such as the annexation of the slave holding Republic of Texas, that would prompt regional strife. This shows how the passion on the abolitionist side, struck fear into the opposing side, enough to…

guarantee the rights of ordinary people. They pointed on the luck of a Bill of Rights in the Constitution which makes Americans unprotected of basic rights such us freedom of speech. In order for a final constitution to be proposed, a series of compromises were needed to be done. There were two main questions to address the representation question and the slavery…

These issues had been boiling up until the topic of slavery brought fuel to the fire. In the compromise of 1850, amendments were made to the Fugitive Slave act, which was an agreement made by the northern and southern states, that if a slave escaped to a northern state he or she would be returned to their masters in the south. The Fugitive Slave Act now…