In return for allowing California to join the Union as free soil, the South was promised that the government would appoint official slave-catchers to hunt down runaways and return them to their owners.
This became a highly emotive issue, which raised the temperature of the slave debate. It made Harriet Beecher Stowe so angry that she promptly wrote the best-selling 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', which raised support for the Underground Railroad - the system of safe-houses by which slaves were smuggled into Canada.
No. It was a compromise in the Congress to work out problems between some states as to which side they were on. People could not decide on their own to own slaves. Some people in the South didn't want slavery.
No. It replaced it with a deal - California to be admitted as a free state, with certain concessions to appease the South, including tightening-up the Fugitive Slave Act. It was the last-minute Crittenden Compromise that was meant to restore the Missouri Line, but Lincoln rejected this compromise, because it would have allowed some extension of slavery.
Henry Clay was a representative from Kentucky and was a nationalist. The name of his plan was the American System and the purpose of his plan was to make the country prosper and grow by itself, without the help of foreign nations.
The Missouri Compromise was reached between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions of the government. It restricted slavery in territories north of 36 degrees 30′ except in the state of Missouri.
A new compromise was put forward, but Lincoln rejected it because it would have allowed some extension of slavery.
slavery was banned in Washington D.C
The alternative was to let the south secede from the Union or achieve some kind of compromise.
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.
Texas - where slavery had been illegal for some time, when it was a Mexican province.
No. It was a compromise in the Congress to work out problems between some states as to which side they were on. People could not decide on their own to own slaves. Some people in the South didn't want slavery.
Because Texas had been a province of Mexico, where slavery had been illegal for some time.
The Compromise of 1850 centered on the issue of slavery in the newly acquired territories from the Mexican-American War, including California and New Mexico. It aimed to address the balance between free and slave states by allowing popular sovereignty in some western territories.
During the civil war, legislators passed some regulations to deal with the slavery issue, and this triggered civil unrest. The compromise helped in resolving the confrontation between the Free states and the Slave states.
Some of the major points of the compromise of 1850 were that slave trade would be abolished in the District of Columbia, California would be admitted as a free state, and Texas would give up the land it was claiming they owned. Another major point was that the states of New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah would join the union.
Some of the major points of the compromise of 1850 were that slave trade would be abolished in the District of Columbia, California would be admitted as a free state, and Texas would give up the land it was claiming they owned. Another major point was that the states of New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah would join the union.
The north had some supporters of the compromise while other northerners opposed it. While the northern democrats accepted the compromise, the northern Whigs thought it to be unfair to northern territories. They especially believed that this compromise would create a problem with fugitive slaves having to force slave owning farmers to waste productive agricultural time hunting down slaves.
No. It replaced it with a deal - California to be admitted as a free state, with certain concessions to appease the South, including tightening-up the Fugitive Slave Act. It was the last-minute Crittenden Compromise that was meant to restore the Missouri Line, but Lincoln rejected this compromise, because it would have allowed some extension of slavery.