Compromise

causes? The Civil War was, for years, built up anger between regions, but the official start was the Missouri Compromise. This compromise was an effort made by congress to diffuse sectional, as well as political conflict between…

North and South eliminated the possibility of an effective compromise. The Civil War became inevitable as domestic tensions over westward expansion reached a zenith in the 19th century. As Hickman stated, two societies with opposing…

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…

As Foote says, the “cotton capitalists” of the South at first believed that their interests were the same as “capitalists in general”; however, “anti-slavery and pro-tariff agitation was beginning to teach them otherwise” (10). In 1832, Southern protests over the tariff issue caused the state of South Carolina to threaten to secede from the Union. The state government instituted an “Ordinance of Nullification,” which was based on the view that an individual state has the right to refuse to…

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…

In John Adams’ Reflection on the Missouri Question, Adam identifies the true motivation behind the expansion of slavery. Adam mentions that it is agreeable that slavery is an evil practice. Along with that statement, Adam points out that the practice of slavery is contradicting to their independence from Great Britain for freedom. Adam identifies the true motivation of expanding slavery is due to people’s soul pride and continue in their condition of being a master. It is not for labor that they…

the Wilmot Proviso post-Mexican War to the election of Lincoln, the country was slowly slipping into an uneasy environment. The South constantly felt betrayed and always worried about having equal representation in Congress. During the 1850s, compromises and peace offerings could have been proposed, but they would have failed like the many others in the past. I strongly believe that the split…

Slavery and Westward Expansion had a very volatile relationship in the Antebellum era America and would contribute to the American Civil War. Westward expansion and the Missouri Compromise of 1820 would be a way to preserve unity within the Union, but over the next 30 years, ties between the Northern and Southern states would be strained as more territory is gained and the question regarding slavery’s place within these new lands. Through an analysis of book and article sources, one gains the…

In 1861 it seems that all the tension building up between the north and south had finally reached a breaking point. The war had started when the first shots were fired by the confederacy at fort Sumter. The war went on until 1865 with the victors being the north also known as the union. Although this event occurred years ago there are arguments surrounding this war. one of them is could the civil war had been prevented. Many people have their own opinion. my belief is that the civil war was an…

second plan was the New Jersey plan, which applied to the smaller states. It said that “Every state will get the same number of representatives in Congress.” At the Constitutional Convention, they resolved this problem with the great compromise. The Great Compromise encompasses both plans because we have the Senate, which has the same amount of representatives from each state, and we have the house of representatives, where each state is represented based on their population. Federalism…