Missouri Compromise

The United States raised their people believing that power needed to be balance so that way any group wouldn't dominate the entire country. The southerners wanted to continue to deny the human rights of people because they wanted to have them as property, working for them and doing whatever they liked. They did all this because they wanted to run their farms and business cheaper than the folks ( people who didn't hold people in slavery). When people got tired of all that and wanted their human…

With all the compromises that completely failed, the issue with slave vs. free states, and the growing differences between the north and south, a civil war was bound to happen soon. However, the other assumptions that people have of what caused truly caused the war are…

believed that, “The Presidents army to make war upon the people of the seceded states.” Knowing that Jackson intended to take his state of Missouri out of the Union, General Nathaniel Lyon took action to prevent this. The first thing that General Lyon did was that he chased Jackson and his band of Missouri State Guards out of Jefferson city, the capital of Missouri. When Lyon entered the capital, he found that the city was nearly abandoned. After he took the confederate flag off of the capital…

The most important cause of the Civil War as the disagreement of slavery between the and south. Some other important causes include states’ rights, election of 1860, and the Missouri compromise. The North and South had always had disagreements about slavery due to the South being pro-slavery while the North was not. As more states began to join there would be many issues of what states would partake in slavery and which states would not, this is where popular sovereignty came into place. The…

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 cotton industry growing. If the institution of slavery was jeopardized, the entirety of the Southern culture was too. The distinct cultural differences made it hard for the regions to empathize with one another, also decreasing the chances of compromise, especially in an era focused on…

Again, Henry Clay suggests an idea to keep from the occurrence of another uprising like the one after the Missouri Compromise. The Compromise of 1850 had something to offer for the North and the South. The Compromise would allow California to become a free state, as a benefit for the North. It would also ban the selling of slaves in Washington D.C., another benefit to the North. To make the south happy, it strengthened fugitive slave laws and settled the organizational details of the territories…

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…

mystery. At the young age of twelve she was captured by and enemy tribe, Hidatsa. After her capturing she was sold to a french Canadian trapper, Toussaint Charbonneau, who forced her to be one of his wives. Sacagawea and her husband lived in the upper Missouri river area, also known as present day…

Motives Towards The Civil War The Civil War was a defining event in American History. Throughout the 1840s and 1850s there was major turmoil across the western territories due to expansion of slavery. The South’s view of slavery saw it as an essential to their nation. Since, America could not have made any growth without the help of slaves. On the other hand, the North’s view on slavery saw it as an inhumane way of life. So, this created some hefty tension between the North and the South. The…