Discuss The Compromises Of The Civil War By Henry Clay

Many people will tell you that African Americans were free during the reconstruction after the civil war, which on paper may be the case. Life during this time was getting better, however, it still wasn’t good. African Americans faced multiple different forms of oppression that would make it seem that they were in prison. A few of these were the black codes, and the government's reaction to the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. However the amendments were not meant to have the states to poke holes in them, they were made to give freed African Americans the same right as everyone else.

According to the Declaration of Independence, signed in 1776, "[...] all men are created equal, [and] they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." One would then expect that every man, would be entitled to their freedom, and it was true, for all white men. African-Americans, however, faced a very different reality. They were still forced into slavery, they were deprived of those rights that all men were meant to have. While the north states opposed slavery, it was permitted in the south, and as the slavery issue raged on, one man would stand to fight for his freedom. His case, would go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Court's decision would

Certainly, freedom was supposed to be “freer”” for those slaves that had fought for their rights after years of submissionn, but, unfortunately, many white Southern people continued to ignore the law by not showing any respect for Africans-Americans. Because of the radical reconstruction in the south, the African-Americans were a step closer from the same political

As tensions between the North and the South rose on the issues of slavery and states’ rights, numerous compromises were proposed to ease the conflict. Such compromises included the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Crittenden Compromise. These compromises had intentions of defining where slavery was permitted and clarifying states’ rights. They were only temporary fixes to a more pressing issue. Between the Missouri Compromise and the Crittenden Compromise, a series of events changed the political atmosphere of the United States and prevented any more compromises on the institution of slavery from being passed.

During Reconstruction, African Americans’ freedoms were very restricted. There were strict regulations on voting, relationships, employment, firearms, and other freedoms that white people had. African American faced disenfranchisement for years after being freed and becoming citizens. In What a Black Man Wants by Frederick Douglass, Douglass angrily demands the freedom to vote that every American deserved. He assesses the black man’s contribution to society and wonders why this contribution has not led to more rights. Those who were supposed to be fighting for the rights of freed slaves were not speaking up. Even the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society was not fighting for the rights of the freed slaves. Because of the restrictions on voting, African Americans did not have the same power over their own lives that white people had. Disenfranchisement is just one way white people limited freedoms of freed slaves.

The Missouri Compromise and events leading up to the Civil War were based mainly on slavery and the two conflicting viewpoints of the American people. The compromises involving slavery were only short-term solutions for a very long-term problem. The Civil War changed the foundation of America forever. The war was inevitable, and thus, the contrasting views between the North and the South were bound to break out into warfare at some point.

Back in the days president and the speakers were making their own decisions, what seems right to them and not listening to the public feedback about the situation even so they lose the voting system. There are always consequences if your not doing something right to the world like how Henry Clay have done by doing the separate states so then there can be slavery. Henry clay was born in Hanover County, Virginia, in 1777. He was a speaker of the House of Representatives, he have elected John Adam to become a president. He have ran for presidency and failed couple time so then he created a party that is named Whig Party. From there he ran again then he have successfully won and became president of United States. Henry clay wanted to have slaves so then he have decided to separate states as North to be free state and South to be slave state so then there could be farm workers for free that doing the job, after couple years later when Henry Clay passed away it led up to Bloody Kansas from his actions that he have took by doing free state and slave state, after Bloody kansas was over, it led up to Civil War to fight for free slaves also end slavery completely.

Henry Clay was the first Speaker of the House that really helped to establish the position and increase the power. Clay served three terms as Speaker of the House and in those years demonstrated how his tactics were effective as well as successful. Henry Clay was personable, and his youth and assertiveness made him a popular choice for Speaker. Clay used his position to place his allies in important committees to achieve these goals. As Clay gained clout in the House of Representatives, he was able to introduce his American System and ideas founded in the American Colonization Society. Henry Clay’s greatest accomplishment as Speaker of the House was the drafting of the Missouri Compromise, which gained him the title of the Great

Henry Clay served as both Senator and Representative from Kentucky. He was elected to the Senate a total of four times, and to the House a total of three. He served as Speaker of the House on three separate occasions, and was the Secretary of State under President John Quincy Adams, between the years 1825 and 1829. Most of Clay's political career was with the Democratic Republican Party, and he ran for president in the election of 1824 as a Democratic Republican against John Quincy Adams. Clay ran for President two other times, as a National Republican Party candidate in 1832, and as a Whig Party candidate in 1844. Clay's legacy in American politics is highly controversial, due to his support for the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850. Clay was also a slave owner.

Young men who have never experienced a war or any kind of battle and saw the deaths and destructions caused by the fighting would be greatly surprised that it is not all glory. “Another factor leading to the war was the number of British-allied Indian attacks in the Ohio Valley” (Shi and Tindall 238). Men, women, and children were viciously killed by Indians in several encounters. Because of this, these young men would think twice. Washington, Adams, and Jefferson would think differently than John C. Calhoun and Henry Clay because they had seen war and were aware of the carnage that happens to people in a war where the younger folks think it is all glory, but it isn’t.

For so long, Robert Remini has been a significant player the political history. In the analysis of the critical moment in the United States, Robert Remini paints a vivid picture of Henry Clay. Clay is brought out as a man who was contradictory. He fought against the slavery, but on the other hand, he equally owned slaves. He was a common man but unfortunately could not be elected as the president of the country. Clay was an outstanding man who however was identified with lack of discipline. His dedication to an idea that the nation was a continuous union of people was not certain. Robert Remini explores the role of Henry Clay in the molding of the “Great Compromise in 1850” (19). In as much as the 1850 compromise did not prevent the civil

     In this paper I am going to talk about how Henry Clay Frick was an important man to our history and some things that he contributed. Not only was he a successful industrialist, but an art patron and a philanthropist. He was one of the most important people that helped put Pittsburgh on the map.

As the Undergorund Railroad enabled an increasing number of slaves to pour into free states, Southern politicians increased pressure for a reinforcement of the law concerning the capture of fugitive slaves. As part of Henry Clay’s Compromise of 1850, Congress passed a revised Fugitive Slave Act in 1850. Thus, citizens had the obligation to co-operate in the capture of runaway slaves by immediately turning them in, while the penatly for interfering with their capture was extended to a fee of $1000 and six months in jail. Furthermore, this new law denied slaves the right to a jury trial. Individual cases were officially handed to federal commisioners, who would have been paid more for returning a suspected slave than for freeing them. Therefore,

African Americans were not truly free. After being free from slavery they had to struggle to achieve many of the basic human’s right, voting is one of the example. Racial difference are related to domination, exclusion. The United States is a diverse country, in societies which has such diversity some group of people has belief that one group is superior to the other. Consequently the race with majority of the population are attributed superior status and the race with minorities are attributed the inferior status. Black were attributed the inferior status in the United States; this cause socioeconomic inequality, and oppression. Stokely Carmichael states that Mr. Muhammad Ali is from Louisville, Kentucky. Did you know that? He was born in

The United States of America is known for its claims of democracy, equality, and freedom for all of it’s citizens. These claims are the foundation of America’s independence and essentially its entire history. But “claims” are simply all they were in history. While many achieved equal democracy and freedom, the African-American population of the US was exempt from these “inalienable rights” and heavily oppressed by society. The cruelty of slavery and oppression as a whole reached its peak in the 19th century bringing upon the abolitionist movement, which eventually aided in the historic removal of slavery and the continued fight for equal right of citizenship for African-Americans. Of the many abolitionists who fought for