It was an untidy deal that satisfied no-one, and ended up raising the tensions.
In exchange for allowing California to be admitted as a free state, the South had to be appeased by the creation of a couple more slave-states, and a promise that runaway slaves in the North would be hunted down and returned to their Southern owners.
The Abolitonists, increasingly powerful in Congress, were outraged by this extension of slavery. And slaves on the run began to acquire a mythology, fanned by the publication of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.
I haven't studied the Compromise of 1850, yet.
the compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 included five separate bills that passed Congress to defuse tension between the slaves states of the South and the free states of the North. Henry Clay devised the Compromise and passed it with the help of Stephen Douglas.
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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
It started the Civil War!
It started the Civil War!
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The Compromise of 1850 was a direct result of the Wilmot Proviso. This was one of the main events leading up to the American Civil War.
Because it did not hold. It had to be replaced by other compromises.
The Compromise of 1850 was passed on September 9th, 1850.
The Misouri Compromise of 1820 delayed the Civil War for a generation. It was undone by the Compromise of 1850, and barely ten years after the end of the Missouri Compromise disunion and war came.
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