Since the American Revolution, slavery had been put into question various times. The North and South always had opposing views on the topic. Once territories wanted to join the union, the argument of slavery filled the minds of Americans. The South wanted more slave states, while the North wanted slavery to be vanquished. Many times, the North tried to negotiate settlements, like the Missouri Compromise, for the sake of a united nation, yet the South never thought it was enough. Once the argument went too far with “Bleeding Kansas”, there was no looking back. The South wanted to leave the union in order to create its own pro-slavery nation. The North didn’t want slavery, but at the same time thought that secession was unconstitutional and the …show more content…
At the same time, the South thought of only what they wanted and not what was good for the sake of the union. When Missouri sent its request to congress to become a state, the public didn’t take it very well. The South wanted the soon-to-be state to be proslavery while the North wanted to prevent slavery from flooding the territory. Missouri’s request brought fighting, and to settle the fighting and bring balance back to the nation, the North created The Missouri Compromise. The Missouri Compromise was an agreement that Missouri can be a slave state and that Maine would also be added as a free state in order to restore the balance between slave and free states. Instead of reducing the violent fights, they brought more to the crumbling nation. All the catastrophic fights kept escalating. All the North wanted to do was bring balance between states and stay one peaceful …show more content…
The government set up by Southerners, mostly Missourians, in the Kansas territory wanted to get away with their pro-slavery beliefs by holding fraudulent elections and an illegal government who did not care for the people of Kansas, but for the south’s proslavery beliefs. During that time, the Northerners wanted to protect the rights of the legitimate people of Kansas, which were being shut up by the pro-slavery government. Since our president of the time, was pro-slavery, he rejected any harsh facts about its beloved pro-slavery Kansas government. After a lot of unnecessary blood was shed during the “Bleeding Kansas” period, the free-state advocates, with the effort to work things out between the people of Kansas, were able to find control of the Kansas constitutional convention of 1859, in which the document they drafted barred slavery and fixed the present boundaries of the state. This document was greatly accepted by a vote of the people of Kansas in October, and in December of that same year, a new state government was elected. The people were able to be heard in the choosing of this new government. People’s rights under the government was one of the things that kept our union together. The North wanted just that; a United States of
Tempers raged and arguments started because of the Missouri Compromise. The simple act caused many fatal events because of what was changed within the United States. It may not seem like a big thing now, but before slavery had been abolished, the topic of slavery was an idea that could set off fights. The Missouri Compromise all started in late in 1819 when the Missouri Territory applied to the Union to become a slave state. The problem Congress had with accepting Missouri as a slave state was the new uneven count of free states and slave states. With proslavery states and antislavery states already getting into arguments, having a dominant number of either slave or free states would just ignite the flame even more. Many representatives from the north, such as James Tallmadge of New York, had already tried to pass another amendment that would abolish slavery everywhere. Along with other tries to eliminate slavery, his effort was soon shot down. The fact that people couldn’t agree on whether or not slavery should be legalized made trying to compose and pass a law nearly impossible.
The United States began to dissatisfy some of its citizens and so the concerns of sectionalism, or the split of the country began to arise. There was a continuous riff between the south and the north over a few issues, a major one being slavery. The south argued that the slaves were necessary to support the southern economy. According to document A, the south were angry that the north was creating taxes that hurt the southern economy, thus increasing the need for slavery since they had to make up for the expense of the taxes. The south felt that the north was able...
The Kansas- Nebraska act of 1854 started the violent bloody Kansas revolt because it interfered with an already recognized agreement between the two sections. The Missouri Compromise had already established the future of America’s political map. The introduction of popular sovereignty placed the decision of whether Kansas would be slave or free in the hands of the citizen that move there. To ensure that Kansas turned to the best institution for their respective secti...
As the country began to grow and expand we continued to see disagreements between the North and South; the Missouri Territory applied for statehood the South wanted them admitted as a slave state and the North as a free state. Henry Clay eventually came up with the Missouri Compromise, making Missouri a slave state and making Maine it’s own state entering the union as a free state. After this compromise any state admitted to the union south of the 36° 30’ latitude would be a slave state and a state north of it would be free. The country was very much sectionalized during this time. Thomas Jefferson felt this was a threat to the Union. In 1821, he wrote, ”All, I fear, do not see the speck on our horizon which is to burst on us as a tornado, sooner or later. The line of division lately marked out between the different portions of our confederacy is such...
The state constitution in 1819, was what began of this compromise when James Tallmadge, a representative from New York attempted to add a anti- slavery amendment to the legislation. This gave a ugly and conflicted debate over slavery and the governments rights to restrict slavery. This Tallmadge amendment restricted all further introduction of slaves into Missouri and provided setting free once they reached the age of 25.This legislation was not passed, as the House of Representatives which was controlled by the North passed the idea, but it failed in the Senate which was equally divided between the North and the South. Although the legislation didn’t pass it led to Henry Clay taking it on when Maine became a free state.
In 1819, the Congress of the United States decided to add the state of Missouri to the map. This addition took its toll on both the Northern and Southern states, effecting them politically and financially. The addition of Missouri messed the balance up between the North and South slave states causing much controversy inside Congress. This controversy restricted the South from expanding on their territory to make room for more slaves and more land.
...h and the South wanted the territory for themselves. The North wanted to expand its industrial fingers to better their economy, but the South wanted more land for plantations to also better their economy. First, the Wilmot Proviso established popular sovereignty as the new factor that decided what side was going to obtain the land. This angered the South because they were frightened that their voice would be lost, and subsequently slavery would be demolished. However, the North felt anger after Stephen Douglass proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and allowed any white male settler to decide if the new territory would be slave or free. With Southern white men trying to make the territories slave territories, the North were furious and started bleeding Kansas, which arguably was the spark that ignited the Civil War.
Kansas became the battleground over the slavery question from 1855-1861 causing bloody feuds which would strike an era known as “Bleeding Kansas”. Due to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise northern states become furious and came pouring in from all around to help decide the destiny of Kansas. This decision would soon create violence between three different political parties who fought for control. As the decision drew to close violence will not only erupt on the street between citizens but in congress it’s self. After all the polls are complete the decision will thrill one group and outrage the other.
The South did not want to lose slavery and wanted future territories to have slavery. Compromise is impossible to achieve. Going back to the quote, "The 1850's was a time of attempted compromise when compromise was no longer possible. " During the 1850's compromise was attempted by both the North and South and failed. It failed because both sides wanted different things, and this made compromise impossible.
In the mid 1860’s, the country of the United States of America, faced one major speed bump, the Secession Crisis. Back in the early 1800s, the United States was faced with a major debating topic, slavery. The South supported slavery in the United States. They believed that it was customary to the way of life and religion. The North did not believe in slavery and wanted no part in owning another human being because they believed that it was wrong and unhuman and that God had not approved of owning a slave.
Secession is the withdrawal from the Union of eleven Southern states from 1860 to 1861, which brought on the American Civil War.1 To those who maintain the justice of the separation of the Confederate States of America, it is important to be assured that the right of a State to secede from the Union with the United States of America, whenever the State felt fit to exercise that right. It was beyond the power of denial from any source. At the time of the adoption of the United States Constitution, each state was a sovereign and independent State, and acted as such in adopting the Constitution. The Declaration of Independence proclaims the States to be “free and independent States”. The Articles of Confederation of 1778 declared that “each State retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence…”2 President Lincoln felt that secession was unlawful, but the secessionists claimed that, according to the Constitution, the States had every right to leave the Union. There were multiple events, such as the Missouri Compromise (1820), Nat Turner’s Rebellion (1831), Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), and Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857), that led to the secession of the Southern states and the Civil War.3 With the end of the war came the end of slavery, secession and nullification by the states.
During the years Abraham Lincoln was alive, Northerners had been highly opposed to the spread of slavery. These views were complete opposite of the South’s agenda of slavery. Over time these black and white views which resulted in only in an increase tense sectionalism. Between 1820 and the mid 1850’s, the moral argument and political actions allowed for the fostering of change in political actions. The political actions taken in these two compromises fostered more change than continuity to a great extent. Although the Missouri Compromise seemed to settle the issue in 1820, by the time of the 1854 Kansas- Nebraska Act came along the conflict had escalated beyond what the territory Missouri could manage. These arguments and actions, therefore,
One of the biggest issues over this was the admission of Missouri and its status as a slave state. Of course people in the South wanted another slave state admitted, but people in the North wanted it to become a free state. With this conflict something had to happen, so Henry Clay proposed the Missouri Compromise. This compromise proposed the admission of Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state and also restricted slavery north of the 36 30’ latitude. This kept the balance of the free and slave states, but appeased the people for the time being. This compromise was a victory for both sides and helped keep the institution of slavery alive and well. Slavery was able to grow and spread slightly up to the north with the Missouri Compromise eventually getting repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. This allowed for more slave states past the previously established line which gave power to the anti-abolitionists. The Missouri Compromise and its eventual repeal allowed the growth of the institution of slavery to occur at a rapid pace due to the power it gave back to the people in the
After all, the south needed slavery and if the western states were all free, that would leave them outnumbered in congress. The solution to this was the Missouri Compromise, passed in 1820. This allowed Missouri to be a slave state and Maine to be free. It also stated that slavery would be illegal north of the southern boundary of Missouri. While this sounds like a fair trade, this compromise did not apply to new states not included in the Louisiana Purchase. Because of this, the southern economy because completely dependent on cotton and the forced labor. On the other hand, northerners believed this infringed on their own economic opportunities and this caused tensions to rise between the
Slavery wasn’t an issue in America ever since the revolution just like how the Indians on the western frontier was never a problem for the settlers. If wrong doings happen for too long then it becomes unbearable just like how the stalemate between the settlers of Virginia and the Indians went on too long with unsettling disputes over who was being unfair and who was unjust. Just like that, the birth of a nation cannot go divided, and that was the exact problem that was happening with the North and the South. The North only tolerated the Souths slavery because it benefited them in some ways. For instance, however well the South did meant the North was doing just was well because the economy had to be fueled by farming from the South and consumers from everywhere, and if slavery helped with production in the South then it was a necessary evil. That is, until it was being seen as an unnecessary evil.