The Compromise of 1850 was a direct result of the Wilmot Proviso. This was one of the main events leading up to the American Civil War.
Some of the events that brought about the compromise of 1850 were slavery and territorial controversies arising from the Mexican American War. The compromise brought to an end the conflict between southern or slavery states and the northern, or free states.
to avoid a civil war over the issue of slavery
Daniel Webster was an influential Senator who lent his support to the Compromise of 1850 for the sake of the keeping the Union in tact. He was permanently vilified by his peers afterwards.
The Compromise of 1850 undid much of the work of the Missouri Compromise made a few years prior. Unfortunately, the Compromise of 1850 did not alleviate the tensions of the slave debate, and the Civil War broke out just ten years later.
It started the Civil War!
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It started the Civil War!
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The Misouri Compromise of 1820 delayed the Civil War for a generation. It was undone by the Compromise of 1850, and barely ten years after the end of the Missouri Compromise disunion and war came.
Because it did not hold. It had to be replaced by other compromises.
The Compromise of 1850 was a direct result of the Wilmot Proviso. This was one of the main events leading up to the American Civil War.
Some of the events that brought about the compromise of 1850 were slavery and territorial controversies arising from the Mexican American War. The compromise brought to an end the conflict between southern or slavery states and the northern, or free states.
The Missouri Compromise of 1850 was made a moot compromise with the introduction of the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854. Neither pieces of legislation can be demonstrated as a cause of the US Civil War. And, both laws were deemed unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court in the Dredd Scott case of 1857.
to avoid a civil war over the issue of slavery
The Compromise laws passed in 1850 required that new states had to come in pairs with one being free and the other slave. In reality, the laws simply delayed a brewing Civil War.
Because both sides were still hoping to avert a civil war.