Compromises And The Union From 1787 To 1854

The compromise of 1850 was a quick effort to reduce the tension that lived between the north and the south. When vice president Fillmore saw the compromise he liked it enough to sign off on it and after it passed Congress over a seven month debate it was established in America. Although the compromise was effective it didn’t really resolve the slavery issue as a majority in the north still believe slavery should be abolished in the south was pro – slavery.

One compromise was to adopt conditions that would suit the propositions of Southern society. By satisfying their needs, they are able to remain in the Union safely and to not further progress the questioning of whether enslavement was ethical (Document 6). Though this would save the Union from the prevention of secession, it would be conflict of interest of the Northern states. The Union may still exist, but hostility and discord will still remain because of these ideological views of whether slavery should be

Compromise—that means to come to an agreement, a settlement that brings peace, but not without some discomfort for both sides. This compromise is hopefully long-lasting and satisfying to both sides and brings with it a rest. The Compromise of 1850 sounds like exactly that, but there is more to this compromise. This “compromise” came when there was much dispute about the future of the western lands recently acquired from the Mexican government—California, Utah, and New Mexico. The Southerners of America wanted the states entered into the union as slave states, while the Northerners wanted them entered as free states. When this issue became more heated and continued to escalate, "The Great Compromiser,” Mr. Henry Clay himself, came out of retirement to do “his thing” and create a compromise. He proposed that California would enter the union as a Slave State and Utah and New Mexico would enter as neutral, being neither a slave nor free state. Parts of both the North and the South hated and liked this plan. Some misanthropists in the South threatened to secede from the union and while the majority knew that to be rubbish at the time, it did eventually come true with the start of the Civil War. The North wanted to see slavery come to an end and were fighting tooth and nail to see that through. After months of debating and changes made to Clay’s compromise it was eventually put into action. There was still unrest in both the North and South, and the compromise only

The five bills constructed by Henry Clay and passed by the United States Congress were created in attempt to solve the crisis between the Northern and Southern states. Bringing these bills into the situation had kept more of a balance between these two sections than in the past. This document brought the United States into smaller tensions and resolved many issues due to the difference of viewpoints in slavery distributed along the United States. This compromise had fundamental significance on individuals, communities, nations, and the world. The amount of trouble between both areas of the United States started to lessen when the compromise was created and brought more balance into the community. The immediate impact of the compromise less conflicts between the Northern and Southern states, but it had also caused more tension at the same time. To every compromise, there are always positives and negatives sides to it. A positive impact for the South would be the reinforcement of the fugitive slave act. Another advantage they had would be Texas being given ten million dollars to pay for their debt towards Mexico. Positive for the North would be having California admitted as a free state. An additional advantage would be slave trade being prohibited in Washington D.C., the nation’s capital. Although a bill can be positive for one side, it would be negative for the opposing side

Douglas proposed that the Nebraska Territory be split into two territories. These territories would be named the Kansas and Nebraska Territories, and the residents would decide whether the two territories be open to slavery or closed to slavery. As a result, over five thousand Missourians, and thousands more from all over the nation scrambled to the territories to cast their vote. Since the proslavery outnumbered the anti-slavery, both territories became open to slavery. Anti-Slavery settlers then established their own government after boycotting the formal government. Tensions between the North and South continued to increase, as well as violence in Kansas. One of the most notable attacks against on the proslavery was carried out by extreme abolitionist John Brown, who murdered five of his proslavery neighbors. The fighting in Kansas earned the name “Bleeding

During the 1820’s, disagreement and other conflicts between the North and South had grown to such a high that compromise was needed to sort out their problems. Many of these disagreements flourished from unfair amounts of North to South representatives in Congress and which territories should be a slave state once new land had been acquired. Up until about 1850, compromise had been the key way of free and slave states staying united, but when most recent compromise (Compromise of 1850) failed, the South seceded. After this succession, America entered the bloodiest war of all prior and after.

When creating the Constitution, the Convention first began with the foundation of the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan. The Great Compromise was the solution to struggle of representation in the Legislative Branch during the U.S Constitutional Convention in 1787. The states with bigger populations like Virginia favored the Virginia Plan. The Virginia Plan called for representation based on the amount of people living in each state. Larger states favored this plan because they would have more power in making laws. On the other hand,

Bleeding Kansas is the period of violence during the settling of Kansas. The Kansas-Nebraska Act nullified the Missouri compromise and instead used popular sovereignty. Free-state and proslavery settlers rushed into Kansas hoping to influence their opinions and ideas into the state's decision. Soon violence attacks started to occur. Including John Brown's raid on Harper’s Ferry.

The Connecticut Plan, also known as the Connecticut Compromise was a merger of the Virginia and the New Jersey Plans. The original Virginia plan wanted representation based on it’s state population and the New Jersey plan wanted an equal number of representatives for all the states. During the Constitutional Convention in 1787 an agreement was reached between the larger and smaller states and it was decided that each state should have fair and equal representation and voting rights. The agreement also laid out the plan for the structure of the representation of each state. This agreement became known as the Great Compromise and a Bi-cameral legislature was formed and divided into the House of Representatives and the Senate. It was decided

The Great Compromise was an act where power was evenly split between federal and state governments. This source, Doc D is also an excerpt but it is from the Constitution of the United States of America and it was written in 1787. The excerpt explains what and how The Great Compromise will work when it informs “ Representatives… shall be appointed… according to…(population).... The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each state…” This quote says that in the new government there will be two houses the Senate and the House of Representatives. These two houses help both the big and the small states so that they both have equal representation in Congress. By doing this, the Constitution guarded against tyranny in that the bigger states would not overrule the small states by having more votes based on their much greater

When Kansas was split and Nebraska was created, popularity sovereignty was declared in both states. Pro-slavery Missourians “poured into the territories” to claim this “up-for-grabs” state as theirs, making the state a slave state (Lost Museum). By the time Missourians arrived, the anti-slavery forces that had arrived outnumbered them and claimed Kansas as a free state. Slavery supporters used weapons and violence to make their opinions and voices heard. When Abolitionists like John Brown heard about this, they quickly traveled to Kansas to see if they could help. Brown responded to these acts of violence by executing the Pottawatomie Massacre of 1856. Brown and some of his supporters dragged five men, who were for slavery, out of their homes and

In the early 1800’s, the US worked out issues, such as slavery, with compromises. The names of these compromises were, but not limited to, The Missouri Compromise, The Compromise of 1850, and Kansas Nebraska act. These were meant to appease the states without leading to secession. Later on, around 1860, the US compromises weren’t working well, and this lead to the secession. This was because the states wanted decisions and instant ends to issues such as slavery.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. This act allowed the settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders. After the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters rushed in to settle Kansas to affect the outcome of the first election held there after the law went into effect. The pro slavery settlers were charged with fraud by anti-slavery settlers and they refused to accept the results. After weeks later, the anti- slavery settlers held another election, but the problem was that the pro slavery settlers refused to vote. Later on, the anti and pro slave settlers started fighting with each other. The anti slaves settlers had John Brown

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was an attempt by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a land in which slavery would be allowed. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave states and free states. (Missouri Compromise , 2016) The Compromise of 1850 was laws admitting California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty, settling a Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute in the former’s favor, ending the slave trade in Washington, D.C. and making it easier for southerners to recover fugitive slaves. (Compromise of 1850, 2016) The Compromise of 1850 and the Missouri Compromise of 1820 had many similarities. Both attempted to balance the slave nations, added states into the Union, encouraged Sectionalism in the North and South, and they influenced the Civil War. Each sectional would affect the balance of power between the North and South greatly. Both the Compromise of 1850 and the Missouri Compromise of 1820 had many similarities, although alike in many ways one major conflict would be the path they each would bear upon the balance of force between the Northern States and Southern States.

During the 1800’s, many conflicts and disagreements brought the nation to its ruins and originated the American Civil War which couldn’t have been avoided at any cost. A Compromise is an agreement developed in which the two groups meet halfway in order to prevent something bad from happening. The Abolitionist movement, on the other hand, is the general reaction people against the practice of slavery overtook to end slavery during the 1800’s. By 1835, the main concern was what everyone questioned themselves, how can we be considered a free country when we have slaves? Due to this, Abolitionist either encouraged slaves to rise up in revolt, or helped slaves escape because they too, had experienced the cruelty and mistreatment. The Missouri Compromise is the preparations provided for the acknowledgment of Maine as a free state along with