Because the proposed new state of California extended so far on either side of the Missouri line that both sides claimed it.
In order to get California admitted as free soil, Congress had to make concessions to the South, of which the most controversial was the Fugitive Slave Act, whereby runaway slaves could be hunted down and returned to their owners. This infuriated the Abolitionists, raised the temperature of the slavery debate nationwide, and definitely brought the war closer.
If California could have been two states - North California and South California, divided along the Missouri line - the war might never have been necessary.
Henry Clay was the one who drafted the compromise of 1850 and the Missouri compromise of 1820.
Both parties were satisfied with the Compromise of 1850.
It happend on 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.
They made the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
The Compromise of 1850 was passed on September 9th, 1850.
The Compromise of 1850 took place in 1850.
he made it The Compromise of 1850
There is not a Compromise of 1950 but there is a Compromise of 1850. The Compromise of 1850 consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery.
Three-Fifths Compromise, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Emancipation Proclamation
the kansas nebraska act, of the compromise of 1850
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
I haven't studied the Compromise of 1850, yet.
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Henry Clay was the one who drafted the compromise of 1850 and the Missouri compromise of 1820.
Both parties were satisfied with the Compromise of 1850.
the compromise of 1850