Compromises Of The Abolition Movement

At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. In the years leading up to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, tensions began to rise between proslavery and antislavery factions within the U.S. Congress and across the country. They reached a boiling point after Missouri’s 1819 request for admission to the Union as a slave state, which threatened to upset the delicate balance between slave states and free states. To keep the peace, Congress came up with a two-part compromise, granting Missouri’s request but also admitting Maine as a free state. It also passed an amendment that drew an imaginary line across the former Louisiana Territory, establishing a boundary between free and slave regions that remained the law of the land until it was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.

The Abolitionist movement during the Antebellum period, was a critical time in American history. The goal of this movement was to emancipate all slaves immediately, and end discrimination, as well as segregation. The brave men and women involved in this movement were called abolitionists and antislavery advocates. The antislavery advocates stood for freeing slaves gradually, and abolitionists wanted slavery gone immediately. No matter how fast, these people all wanted to spread opposition against slavery across the United States. Northern churches started liking this whole idea of abolishing slavery, which started conflict between the North and South. These arguments led up to the Civil War.

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.

Since Missouri’s population was composed of 16 percent slaves, it would be admitted as a slave state therefore upsetting the balance in favor of the south. Northerners didn’t like this because Missouri was at the same latitude as the free states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and because of this they feared that it would set a precedent for slave states coming more north. The north and south continued to argue and argue over the issue of slavery. The north accused the south of trying to extend the institution of slavery and the south said that the north was conspiring to destroy the Union and end slavery. To resolve this crisis, congress passed a series of agreements that became known as the Missouri Compromise, which smoothed over the crisis. In 1820, Congress admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state in order to balance the number of free and slave states and to keep order between the north and south. Also, it prohibited slavery in the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase north of the southern boundary of Missouri. This compromise soon fell apart after it was passed. Missouri drafted its own Constitution saying that free blacks were prohibited from entering their territory. Because of this provision, which was against the federal Constitution stating that citizens of one state were entitled to the same rights as citizens of other states, antislavery northerners

Northern states feel sympathy towards the slaves since they believed that the slaves have to work very long in the cotton field with little rest. On the other hand, the South believed that the slaves were treated well with care and were given liberty (Doc.#3). As a result, slavery was abolished in the North and the social difference between the North and the South eventually led to the abolitionist movement. It is a movement for the abolition or the end of slavery. The movement tried to stop slavery with different methods: protest, political action, publishing, forming groups and societies, developing a colonization program (Liberia) and using the Underground Railroad. The American Anti-Slavery society was one of the most famous abolitionist organizations. It had more than 150,000 members (mostly from the Northern States) and still expands as more people wanted to stop slavery. The American Anti- slavery Society believed that slavery was a cruel crime people shouldn’t do and was against Christian teachings (Document#2a). The Southern states opposed this movement because it’s against their interests while the Northern states favored it since they wanted to stop slavery or stop the spread of slavery. They opposed everything that would spread slavery such as the war with

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 impacted the United States in ways that changed the nation as a whole. Two states, Missouri and Maine, had different requests that triggered the slavery argument. Missouri had requested to become a slave state, whereas Maine entered as a free state. At this time, tensions grew between the people as a result of pro-slavery and anti-slavery issues. The Missouri compromise was a temporary solution to the questions people had about slavery and territorial rights. As a result, the compromise stated that no slavery would be permitted north of the 36°30’ latitude line. National politics were severely impacted as arguments began to grow over slavery. The Missouri Compromise negatively impacted the United States’ national politics, slavery, and the overall unification of the nation.

The Missouri Compromise was made in 1820, and it was a settlement trying to regulate the expansion of slavery. This controversy had occured when the state Missouri had applied for admission into the union, but had been rejected as the current states in the union had already achieved a balance in the number of slave and free states. If Missouri was accepted it would ruin the balance in the Senate to the slave states' advantage. To prevent their disadvantage in power, northerners accepted to admit Missouri into the union in one condition: they had to admit Maine as a free state. The admission of Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state would once again return to the balance, preventing and issues against the north and the south. The settlement was made stating that Missouri would be admitted as a slave state and

However, the Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to be part of the United States only if Maine would be a free state. This compromised creates a balance free and slave states. A border was then established across the Louisiana Territory that banned slavery in the north territory so

In 1819 Missouri requested for an admission to the Union as a slave state. So that threatened to upset the delicate balance between slave states and free states. Now to keep peace, they were granted Missouri’s request for a free state but also admitting Maine as a free state. The Missouri compromise took place in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Now the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th

One example of how the issue of slavery was either avoided or compromised on to keep the Union together was the Missouri Compromise. At the time in 1819, half of the twenty two states in the U.S. were slave Free states while the other half were free. Missouri requested admission into the Union as a salve states in 1819. This created much tension because the division between the states would no longer be in balance if approved. To avoid unnecessary skirmish and hold peace, Congress allowed Missouri to become a salve states while admitting Maine as a free state. The plan that originated from Henry Clay also prohibited slavery in territories north of the latitude 36’30’’ of the Louisiana Purchase. Even though many criticized the compromise, it was one factor that helped to hold the Union together for more than thirty years. Thomas Jefferson was adamant against slavery and the

The Missouri Compromise was an attempt to settle the conflict of slavery between North and South. In this compromise Missouri entered the union as a slave state while, Maine entered as a free state. This was an attempt to keep the free and slave states balanced. This compromise didn’t work in the long run because an unbalanced union was inevitable. Both views would continue to battle for the upper hand. The North and South both felt equally that their views were superior and right (275, 412)

The Missouri Compromise, formulated by Henry Clay, was meant to regulate slavery in the country’s western territories. It also admitted Missouri as a slave state, and at the same time declared that states could not enter the union as a slave state if they were above 36’ 30”. In addition, it added Maine into the United States and balanced the ratio of slave and free states. This compromise was agreed upon both pro and anti-slavery factions, and passed in 1820. However, the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska

Controversy raged in Congress and the press for two years before Henry Clay devised a series of political agreements known as the Missouri Compromise. Faced with unwavering southern opposition to Tallmadge's amendment, a group of northern congressmen deserted the antislavery coalition. They accepted a deal that allowed Maine to enter the Union as a free state in 1820 and Missouri to follow as a slave state in 1821. This bargain preserved a balance in the senate between North and south and set a precedent for future admissions to the Union. Of their part, southern senators accepted the prohibition of slavery in most of the Louisiana Purchase, all the lands north of the latitude of 36’30’ except for the state of Missouri. As they had in the Philadelphia

The Missouri Compromise, enacted in 1820, forced American politicians to attempt to find a solution to the issue of slavery and its expansion into the territories gained by the Louisiana Purchase. With the addition of new territories being gained by the United States the issue of whether the new states would be slave states or free states arose. Prior to the Louisiana Purchase the states maintained a frail balance of both free and slave states. The North and the South, both wished to keep an equal number of representatives within the senate, and the new territories to the west threatened to undo this balance. When Missouri announced that they wished to join the Union as a slave state, the issue immediately became controversial. The Northern

During many years there were groups that fought the cause to end slavery in the United States one of the group was called the Abolitionist movement in the United States of America they fought for a nation that valued personal freedom and believed "all men were created equal." Some of the people behind the fight against slavery were the following: Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Nee Harriet Ross, Harriet Beecher Stowe, President Abraham Lincoln and many others. The abolition movement became an important element of political parties. Although the Native American Party (derisively called the Know-Nothing Party because when member were asked about the secretive group they claimed to "know nothing"). The law that was created