Slavery As The Compromise Of 1850

During the 19th century slavery was a very prominent and controversial issue between the north and the southern states. In the South, most people believed that slavery was a profitable way of life and if the slavery was to be abolished it would then affect their economy. On the hand the northern had different opinions about slavery and intended to stop it. The fact that the perception were different between the two led to a very difficult situation in resolving the issue.

The measures, a trade off planned by Whig Senator Henry Clay, who neglected to get them through himself, were shepherded to entry by Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas and Whig Senator Daniel Webster. The measures were contradicted by Senator and previous Vice-President John C. Calhoun. The Compromise was conceivable after the demise of President Zachary Taylor, who was in resistance. Succeeding him was an in number supporter of the trade off: Millard Fillmore. It briefly defused sectional strains in the United States, deferring the withdrawal emergency and the American Civil War. The Compromise dropped the Wilmot Proviso, which never got to be law however would have banned subjugation in domain gained from Mexico. Rather the Compromise further embraced the regulation of "Mainstream Sovereignty" for the Territory of New Mexico and the Territory of Utah. The different bargains reduced political controversy for a long time, until the relative respite was broken by the divisive Kansas-Nebraska Act. Basically it was a progression of bills set out to keep the country united. Despite the fact that it postponed progression, it is seen as just a makeshift fix..

Africa was once a thriving and wonderful continent filled with luxurious and wealthy kingdoms, but that had all changed when a new and appalling type of slavery was introduced. Around the 18th century, Africa became an ideal place for Europeans to trade and buy slaves from. The slave trade in Africa seemed to be manageable and somewhat peaceful before the Europeans brought in a new type of slavery. When the Europeans bought slaves from Africans, they kept them as slaves for life which were very different from how long slaves were kept in Africa. Europeans kept slaves in extremely poor conditions and treated them as if they were less than human. These actions caused a great spike in the slave trade all over the world and many

One effect on the issue was that the economy in the south was fueled by cultivation of staple crops that required slaves for labor. In the South slavery wasn’t thought as an evil as in the North because to the Southerners defense the slaves in their opinion were treaty in contrast to workers in England and peasants that were Irish, also the end of slave trade brought higher value to the slaves causing their owners to be less harsh because they were more valuable. Although slavery fueled the economy in the South it was not the same in the North therefore there was no complete dire need for slavery, and although the slaves probably weren’t treated as bad as the north had thought they still saw it as

The issue of slavery was becoming more and more prominent in the years between 1820 and 1865, and was creating a lot of sectional tension between the North, who tended to hold abolitionist beliefs, and the South, who were generally pro-slavery. Many arguments were used to defend slavery, but many of these arguments ignored some crucial details. For instance, moral arguments against slavery tended to ignore the horrible conditions slaves were forced to live in; economic arguments ignored many viable solutions to their problem; and political arguments ignored blatant bias.

The events of the mid-1800s kept the nation together and pulled it apart because of the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Dred Scott Decision.

The Civil War was a disgrace of angered men who wanted land and money, and a symbol of pride for what we received after fighting for. Hundreds of thousands of men fought bravely in war, and most of those lives were lost. Strategies were created to end the war quickly and generals were trusted to bring them back a win. However, the causes of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, and the Industrial Revolution, and the Missouri Compromise all caused a great divide between the North and the South, leading to the Civil War.

The Compromise of 1850 was the result of many years of tension regarding the issue of slavery, and the plethora of problems that came with it, such as the admission of slave and free states into the Union, and fugitive slave laws. The Compromise was a package of 5 separate bills passed in the United States in September of 1850, which helped to diffuse a massive conflict that had been brewing for four-years between the pro-slave Southern states and anti-slave Northern states. The Compromise was drafted by Whig Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky and brokered by Clay and Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas and helped to reduce sectional conflict for a short time. Naturally, controversy arose over the Fugitive Slave provision of the Compromise. At the time, the compromise was greeted with certain degree of relief from both sides, although the North and the South were both able to see that this draft was only a temporary solution to an ever-growing national problem.

The Compromise of 1850 was a package with a total of five bills passed by the United States Congress in september 1850, which defused a four year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the states territories acquired during the Mexican American War. The Compromise which dealt with a host of issues, including territorial expansion, the extension of slavery, and the Fugitive Slave Act, was the signature legislative accomplishment of the decade. The South gained by the strengthening of the Fugitive Slave Law and the North gained a new free state. California and Texas lost territory but, were each compensated with 10 million dollars to pay for their debt. Slave trade was prohibited in Washington D.C,

The Fugitive Slave Act was part of the Compromise of 1850. Though the entire compromise had been controversial, the Fugitive Slave act was the most so. The first Fugitive Slave Act had been made in order to return runaway slaves to the South, but was fairly ineffective. The revision of the act was made in 1850 as a part of a compromise suggested by the South as a way of keeping them from seceding. This revision included a fine of $1,000, twice as much as it was previously, and up to 6 years in jail for anyone who interfered with the return of a runaway slave. It also disallowed the African Americans from using a jury case. Judges were payed $10 for returning the slave and $5 for releasing them. Some judges took advantage of this by sending

Although Northerns opposed the concept of slavery, they viewed blacks as inferior to whites. One main concern of the North was that freed or escaped slaves would overrun the North. This would lead to fewer jobs for whites as they competed against the freed slaves for the limited number of jobs. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (Avalon Project) was passed through Congress as a result of a compromise that allowed southern slaveholders to recapture their escaped slaves that fled across the Mason Dixon to Northern states.

There are no mentions of the words “slavery”, “slave”, “African”, or “Negro” anywhere in the Constitution, which is a silent but powerful admission that the Founding Fathers were ashamed that slavery existed. During the time the Constitution was written, there were more than 500,000 black slaves, most of who made up forty percent of the colonies of the South. There were multiple compromises created to help get rid of slavery, such as the Northwest Ordinance and the Missouri Compromise, while others were created to protect slavery, like the Fugitive Slave Clause.

In the early years of the 19th century, slavery was more than ever turning into a sectional concern, such that the nation had essentially become divided along regional lines. Based on economic or moral reasoning, people of the Northern states were increasingly in support of opposition to slavery, all the while Southerners became united to defend the institution of slavery. Brought on by profound changes including regional differences in the pattern of slavery in the upper and lower South, as well as the movement of abolitionism in the North, slavery in America had transformed from an issue of politics into a moral campaign during the period of 1815-1860, ultimately polarizing the North and the South to the point in which threats of a Southern disunion would mark the beginning of the Civil War in 1861 (Goldfield et. al, The American Journey, p. 281).

The factors in the regional development of the United States from 1800 onward, such as the crusades against slavery, the Compromise of 1850, and the arguments involving the admission of several states, both free and slave states, corroborate that the Civil War was, indeed, inevitable. There was no way to predict the outcome of these events; however, looking back in history, it is easy to tell that the Civil War was a ticking time bomb.

In 1793 a piece of legislation was passed to give authorities in free states, as well as slave states, the power to send any black, they thought might be a runaway slave, back to the south. Also, it made it illegal to help an escaped slave. Later on in 1850 the act was made harsher because no one ever really followed it in the North