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Missouri Compromise
the Missouri compromise
Balancing of slave and free states.
Missouri Compromise
Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850 sought to balance the free states and the slave states in balance. The Compromise lost its value with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
Connecticut Compromise
In its time, the Missouri Compromise was the solution made to keep the number of Slave and Free States in an even balance. The growth of the United States would later demand another way to keep both the South and the North balanced.
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The solution that preserved the balance between slave and free states while allowing slavery to expand into new territories was the Compromise of 1850. This plan was also known as the Clay Compromise, named after its main proponent, Senator Henry Clay. It included provisions such as admitting California as a free state, allowing popular sovereignty in the territories of New Mexico and Utah, and strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act.
by the Missouri Compromise
by the Missouri Compromise
The chief goal of the Compromise of 1850 was to preserve the balance between slave states and free states.