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The 1820 Missouri Compromise played a large role in the campaign against slavery. In 1819 Missouri became a statehood and congress considered framing a state constitution, with this a representative attempted to add a anti-slavery legislation with it. This is what started the process of the campaign against slavery. Henry Clay made a large contribution toward this compromise in 1820, with his new ideas on how to settle the conflict between the North and the South, which lasted until 1954.All the compromise’s made from 1820's to the Kansas Nebraska compromise

The compromise of 1850 was a settlement on a series of issues plaguing the unity of the states. The primary issue to address was the institution of slavery, which was causing much dissension between the north and the south. Additional items to be addressed were territory issues and to prevent secession by the south. Henry Clay stepped forward to present a compromise, which had Congress in an eight-month discussion known as the “Great Debate”. As a result of the proposal, there were strong oppositions. One outspoken person who opposed the proposal was John C Calhoun. Calhoun was an intellectual southern politician, political philosopher and a proponent to the protection of Southern interests. He was an advocate for states’ rights and

During the year 1820, the Missouri Compromise was established in the USA. Missouri was a slave state to start with but the North wanted to push it towards a free state. Although the North outnumbered the South in population and in the House of Representatives (105-81), and the ratio between states were 11:11, no new legislation could be made. If the state of Missouri became a free state, the ratio between free states and slave states would be 12:10 which would mean that the North could pass any legislation without fear of it being blocked. Vice versa with the South because it would give the South more political power. There was much controversy surrounding this issue and someone had to try and fix it. The man who first try and fix the problem was James Tallmadge who wanted to get rid of slavery in Missouri which outraged the South into blocking it. A man named Henry Clay proposed that Missouri would be a slave-holding state, Maine would now be a free state (23 state added), and there would be no slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36°30'

In 1819, two more states wishing to join the union, were Missouri and Maine. Missouri wanted to join the union in the in the north, but as a slave state. this would make the balance of power in congress unequal. Many northerners opposed this idea. Northerners proposed that Missouri be a slave state and that no more slaves were to be brought in, and all slave children would be free at age 25. Eventually Missouri would be a free state. Southerners were opposed to this idea. Congress debated for months. This brought about the Missouri Compromise of 1820, when Henry Clay proposed that Maine enter the union as a free state. He also proposed prohibiting slavery above the 36’30’ latitude, which is the southern boundary of Missouri. Since plantations would not be able to survive further north of this line, the South agreed.

The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to keep the delicate balance between the slave and free states that would have been upset by the addition of Missouri as a slave state. After a tedious back and forth between the free and slave states, Henry Clay, speaker of the house at the time, orchestrated the missouri compromise in March 1820. The compromise stated that congress would not restrict the admission of Missouri as a slave state but as a result Maine would be added as a free state. Northerners also wanted a prohibition of slavery in the remaining territory of the louisiana purchase north of 36° 30´ latitude line. The compromise was important because it put off the dreaded debate of slavery, albeit not for long. The compromise

Henry Clay was the writer of The Missouri Compromise, he tried to limit the slavery boundaries, and it was later acknowledged as an unconstitutional and it’s also considered one of the several events that led to the American civil war. The compromise was an example for the settling from North and South differences over the slavery and duty issues and it also remained in result until rescinded by the Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854.The Missouri Compromise relieved pressures among the North and the South delaying the civil war The American Civil War. According to the history February

The south began to rely on agriculture as their basis of economic growth. For this to be success, slavery was an almost a natural need for the people of the south. Cotton began to grow as a cash crop for the South. Cotton was dependent on many workers needed for it to exist, thus the need for such a large amount of work force. Slavery in the late 1700’s was beginning to die down and cotton was paying the biggest price for it. Not until Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin did the issue of slavery spark up again and cotton begins to thrive. In 1820 Missouri wished to be part of the Union as a slave state. With there already being an equality of Slave states and Free states it caused tension and sectionalism within the country; because of the edition of Missouri would cause an unbalance of free and slave states. In hopes to resolve this conflict a compromise was reached known as the Missouri Compromise. Through the Missouri Compromise Missouri was able to enter as a slave state, while Maine was able to enter as a free state. However, as pointed out, it created a line between slave states and Free states. Any state below Missouri was able to practice slavery, and any state above was to be a Free State. Even John Quincy Adams led to the sectionalism, with his supportive views of the Compromise. (Document F) He expressed views in the emancipation of slavery as a

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Americans in the early nineteenth century had been, or atleast seemed to be very desent at solving their political problems with compromise. Compromise had been less and less effective at settling these politcal disputes the closer to 1900 it became. It seemed to be revativly impossible by 1860. This impossibity arouse from the North and the South adpoting impervious opinions about politics and slavery that heavily opposed each other. Senator Henry Clay, the "Father of Compromise" clearly stated and believed that it was "utterly impractical" that South Carolina ever wated to suceceed from the United States(Document A).

During the sixteenth and seventeenth century, the world of science became exposed to new scientific discoveries that were not welcomed by the church. For decades, people believed and did everything the Roman Catholic Church told them because there were no documents or no other proof of scientific knowledge to go on. Friendship should be spread through the whole world of learning…(Document 9)” You will learn better if you are friends because you can exchange information and find out more than if you were enemies. The Roman Catholic Church was threatening by the Scientific Revolution because Copernicious’s, Galilei’s, and Newton’s new science discoveries open people minds to change.

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Although they fought for the abolition of slavery, the compromise didn’t succeed for long in approving abolition provisions but instead free state provisions. The North and South constantly fought over the matter of slavery. However in 1833, the North gave into South Carolina’s demands. Subsequently, the Tariff Act of 1832, South Carolina passed a statue of nullification which stated that the federal tariff laws were invalid. The state attempted to threaten to resist by force, any federal attempt to enforce the tariff. The president at the time, Andrew Jackson, led the change by introducing a bill that gave presidential authority to use armed forces to carryout laws. Henry Clay helped prepare the compromise which would be more acceptable to the South. The Tariff of 1833 helped prevent South Carolina from seceding from the Union by resisting against the federal government. John C. Calhoun became a partisan of states' rights, believing that each state was autonomous and that any state could declare an act of Congress as unconstitutional. Calhoun, in protest against the 1832 Tariff Act, led South Carolina in an attempt to invalidate the act. Although this crisis was eventually settled through the Compromise of 1833, Calhoun continued to protect slavery. John C. Calhoun was formerly Jackson's vice-president, and later a South Carolina senator. He said the North should grant the South’s demands to maintain piece. He was a representative for the South and states' rights. The South was fighting for more slave territory, and had brilliant ways of earning them. The South was ungrateful to the North for giving into their demands, and exemplified such by seceding in the

The South was completely for this immoral institution, considering how slave labor was the backbone of their economy. Even the poor yeoman farmers who owned no slaves supported this institution, sometimes having the hope that they might one day gain enough wealth to afford slaves of their own. Even if they could not own slaves, slavery gave them the security that they would not have to suffer being at the bottom of the social ladder, having these slaves below them in a lower social class. Large planters relied on slavery to grow their crops such as cotton and indigo. As show in Document C, the Missouri Compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state while Maine entered the Union as a free state. This benefited both sides to keep the balance between the states. Even so, the North still did not approve of this institution, believing in free labor instead. There were people who fought for the emancipation of all slaves and they were called abolitionists. Within these abolitionists came the extremists. As shown in Document F, John Brown was one of these. He gave his life fighting for the freedom of slaves from slavery, which resulted in the loss of his own sons as well as the lives of different volunteers who fought for the cause. Brown viewed slavery as unjust and wicked, saying that it needed to be put to an end. Also, as shown in Document M, William Lloyd Garrison was another

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In Lincolns second inaugural he coined a famous phrase saying "Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other." (Perret 48)Other problems would arise concerning slavery such as which states would be admitted as free or slave states. Several compromises were made in order to avoid tensions rising such as the “Missouri Compromise”. Yet again we see later on by the repeal of this act by the “Kansas Nebraska” act that things remain unstable. Tensions would rise again when we acquired the new territories from Mexico. For several years it caused tensions with the South wanting slavery and the North opposed to it. Eventually the Compromise of 1850 would quell the tensions.