Missouri Compromise

was at the pinnacle of political tension due to the controversial Fugitive Slave Bill of 1850. This bill was part of the Compromise of 1850 which included five laws designed to preserve the balance of power between the free and slave states. The Compromise of 1850 declared new territory to be free states and eliminated the slave trade, but not slavery itself. However, the Compromise authorized a refined Fugitive Slave Act that enraged Northerners because it required the surrender of runaway…

The Constitutional Convention that took place in n1787 laid the foundation of a country that would have a large impact on the world. The arguments and proposals created at the Constitutional Convention would have a lasting impact on the American people. Our recreation of the Constitutional Convention attempted to shed light on the background and situations surrounding the original men at the 1787 Convention. The Constitutional Convention held in our class was strikingly different compared to…

William Wilson takes his readers on a guided tour of an undisclosed art collection in his monthly contribution to the Anglo-African Magazine, the “Afric-American Picture Gallery.” Wilson published this series in 1859, when the United States was on the cusp of the Civil War and when slavery was the issue of the times. Wilson’s picture gallery contains descriptions of art objects all pertaining to the idea of slavery. This gallery is intriguing because Wilson does not mention the location of the…

Since birth, I was taught that I would live out my life working in the cotton fields . For years, I believed I was bound within these borders of this plantation and face the suffering my family and others have felt before me. That was until I heard rumors of escaping to the “promised land” through an Underground Railroad. At the first opportunity I am ready to go. However, I want to take my mother with me, but unfortunately, that is not possible. My mother is my whole world and has gone through…

The men that shaped our nation have been a part of our history for over hundreds of years. The most import men are Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Robert Hayne, and others. These men have taken multiple terms in office in different positions and made an impact in all of their offices held even in their hometown states. John C. Calhoun was a congressman who also ended up being a vice president, secretary of state, and U.S. secretary of war. Calhoun was born on March 18, 1782 in South Carolina and…

Compromise of 1850 The “Compromise of 1850” was a resolution constructed by Henry Clay in an attempt to appease both Northerners and Southerners, in regards to if the new territorial expansions acquired from the war with Mexico and subsequent “Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo” in 1848, should allow slavery. The compromise allowed California to be a free state and gave New Mexico and Utah the policy of “Popular Sovereignty” or the ability for the people of the state to decide on slavery. Texas was…

South became polar opposites before the civil war with compromises and the influence of the Mexican-American war. The South supported the Gag Resolution, with all anti-slavery cases being tabled, and the Fugitive Slave Law, with slaves denied a jury trial and commissioners paid for not allowing the slave to be freed. The North encouraged the Wilmot Proviso, which acknowledged the southern desire for slave states in Mexico, and the Compromise of 1850, making the senate unbalanced in the favor of…

act was designed to catch runaway slaves and return them to their masters. However, people didn’t always comply to that law which in return gave the slaves what they wanted which was freedom. We know that the fugitive slave act was part of the compromise of 1850. This gives us around the exact years this story would’ve occurred. Luckily for the slaves the ones who would survive wouldn’t have to endure its cruelty much longer. When the law passed people had different outlooks on it. Some…

In the historical fiction novel, “Forge,” by Laurie Halse Anderson, tells the story of Curzon Smith, a runaway slave who enlists in the rebellion against the British during the American Revolution. It is a sequel to “Chains” where “Forge” begins after Curzon has been deserted by Isabel, a friend whom of which had freed him from imprisonment at the end of the previous novel. Along the arduous journey, the protagonist faces “ignorance, mistrust, and greed” including the conditions that come along…

Fehrenbacher first introduces the idea of the South being overpowered by stating "The South accordingly appears to have benefited more from the political consequences of the Compromise of 1850 than from any of its specific provisions. For a reunited Democratic party, pledging faithful adherence to the Compromise, swept to victory in the presidential election of 1852 and also won a two-thirds majority in the House of Representatives."( 77). Here it is stated that the South has become a more…