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.
In any compromise, each side gives up something important in order to make the compromise work. Clearly Northern abolitionists were distract over the compromise, especially as the Fugitive Slave Act was part of the 1850 Missouri Compromise.
Niether side was very happy about it.
they were very happy about it
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They made the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
The Compromise of 1850. To get it through Congress, they had to appease the South by promising to hunt down fugitive slaves and return them to their owners. This aroused sympathy for runaways, and helped to fuel inter-sectional discord.
Henry Clay was the one who drafted the compromise of 1850 and the Missouri compromise of 1820.
Because both North and South were not intimately satisfied on the terms of the compromise and the fire was mouldering under the ashes.
Both parties were satisfied with the Compromise of 1850.
The Compromise Of 1850.
They made the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
no that's what makes it a compromise
compromise of 1850
To prevent secession of the South.
The Compromise of 1850 appeased both North and South in several ways. The South was granted a harsher treatment of fugitive slaves by the North. Both North and South were granted parts of the Texas Territory. At this time, Washington, D.C. still had slaves, but the Compromise of 1850 did away with that practice.
The Missouri Compromise postponed the issue of slavery.
He adamantly opposed it
Basically the Missouri Compromise of 1850 was a fair compromise. One problem for Northern abolitionists was that the Compromise ushered in the Fugitive Slave Act. They were outraged that the new compromise included this law.
The term of the compromise 1850 was a group of five bills, passed September 1850, which defuse a four year confrontion between slave states of the south & free states of the north.
The term of the compromise 1850 was a group of five bills, passed September 1850, which defuse a four year confrontion between slave states of the south & free states of the north.
What was Stephen A.Douglas's role in passing the Compromise of 1850?