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How was the compromise of 1850 similar to and different from the Missouri compromise?
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∙ 13y ago
The Missouri Compromise (1820) established that for each slave state that joined the US, another "free" (non-slave) state had to join, maintaining the balance between the two ideological positions. The South felt that it needed slaves to stay economically strong.
The Compromise of 1850 (five separate bills in 1850) did away with the concept of balance and established that slavery would be decided internally in Kansas and Nebraska. The South was compensated by the Fugitive Slave Law. The acts also established territories in Utah and New Mexico, and allowed California into the US as a "free" state.
Both Compromises were effectively repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1954, which allowed all states to decide on slavery on their own, creating the anti-slavery Republican Party and setting the stage for the US Civil War.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoThe Missouri Compromise had been a good, clear 'line in the sand': north of that line, slavery would be illegal. Both sides understood it (however little they liked it) and both kept to it.
The new state of California was too big to fit the terms of the Missouri Compromise, so the Compromise of 1850 had to be worked out, and it was much less satisfactory. The Fugitive Slave Act in particular, which forced Northern citizens to co-operate with official slave-catchers, backfired badly, causing Harriet Beecher Stowe to write 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', and arousing strong feelings in many Northerners who had never taken any special interest in the slavery question up till then.
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∙ 13y agoThey were both concerned with the acquisition by America of vast new territories, and the debate over which of the forthcoming states would be slave and which would be free..
In the case of the land acquired from France by the Louisiana Purchase, they settled on the Southern border of Missouri as the divide. This parallel, as it extended westwards, would be the line, North of which slavery was illegal. This was the Missouri Compromise (1820), a simple arrangement that kept the peace for thirty years.
After the Mexican war, the new state of California extended too far on either side of the Missouri line to fit the terms of the Missouri Compromise. So a new deal had to be worked out (Compromise of 1850), with California admitted to the union as free soil, subject to certain concessions to the South, including the Fugitive Slave Act. This roused furious reactions in the powerful Abolitionist lobby, and the new compromise did not last.
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∙ 12y agoThe Missouri Compromise settled on one line of latitude, North of which all territory would be free soil.
When California came up for admission to the USA, it extended too far on either side of that line, and there had to be a new compromise.
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∙ 13y agoYes, it replaced it because the admission of California could not be conducted according to the Missouri Compromise - the new state was too big,
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What is the correct chronological order of these eventsCompromise of 1850, Three-Fifths Compromise, Missouri Compromise,Emancipation Proclamation?
Three-Fifths Compromise, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Emancipation Proclamation
What compromise lead to the civil war?
the Missouri compromise, the 3/5 compromise, and the compromise of 1850 no it was thethe Missouri compromise, the 3/5 compromise, and the compromise of 1850
Which act violated the Missouri compromise?
the kansas nebraska act, of the compromise of 1850
Which decision voided the Missouri Compromise?
compromise of 1850
Who was the author of the Missouri compromise of 1850?
The Missouri Compromise was not 1850 but 1820, and it was engineered by the politician Henry Clay. It was also Clay, in his old age, who was called out of retirement to engineer the Compromise of 1850.
What attempts did north and the south make to compromise?
They made the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
What occurred first in history Missouri Compromise Bonus Bill Compromise of 1850 or the American system?
Missouri Compromise was signed in 1820s. The Compromise of 1850 was signed in the 1850s
Who created the compromise if 1820 and 1850?
Henry Clay was the one who drafted the compromise of 1850 and the Missouri compromise of 1820.
Henry clay's compromise became known as what?
The Missouri Compromise The Compromise of 1850 The Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Who helped in The Missouri Compromise and the compromise 1850?
Henry Clay
Who shaped The Missouri Compromise and the compromise of 1850?
Stephen Douglas
Which statement is trueThe Missouri Compromise postponed the issue of slavery?
The Missouri Compromise postponed the issue of slavery.
