Dbq Missouri Compromise

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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

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