Similarities Between 1850 And Missouri Compromise Of 1850

The compromise of 1850 was very similar to the Missouri compromise of 1820 in that they both succeeded in bringing together the North and the South. In the early 18th century, there was division in America as result of slavery. At that particular point, the North and South were already in tension due to issue of slavery. Slavery was not widely spread in the North however, businessmen enriched themselves through slave trade in the south. Both Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850 both aimed at restoring peace between the North and South slave sated and between the Free and the Slave states.
In 1819, America consisted of 22 states which were equally distributed among Free states and Slave states. Missouri requested to be declared a slave

state however, making it a slave state would strike off the balance among Free states and Slave states. The Missouri demand would not stop and hence increased tension between Free and Slave states. In 1920, as an attempt to reduce tension and create peace, the National congress drafted an act that granted Missouri a slave state but providing that Maine was an anti-slave state. The congress also provided in the act the boundary through Louisiana which marked the boundary between slave states and Free states thus making it illegal for slave trade on the Northern boundary above 36° 36´except Missouri.(xxx) However, both South and North criticized the Bill for their own reasons. The south criticized the bill because they realized that the congress could make bills regarding slavery which could favor in the abolishment of slavery in America. The North on the other side saw a threat to expand slavery. However, the act managed to create peace between the North and South until 1854 when Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in the constitution. The Act allowed Kansas and Nebraska to their own decision to allow or disallow slavery. This brought division since both were on the northern border of Louisiana. Later in 1923, the Missouri Compromise Act was declared unconstitutional on the basis that slavery and was done away with by the congress. Despite the Missouri Compromise efforts to unite the North and South, it was replaced by Kansa-Nebraska Act which fueled the civil war in 1861.
Between 1846 and 1848, there was growing division between America and Mexico along the boundary on the states that had been acquired.

It was the growing war that led to Compromise of 1850 to establish peace just like the Missouri Compromise. The Compromise consisted of five bills providing different guides. One of the bills declared that California was an anti-slavery state and made it the 16th state to be Free from slavery. The second bill created two states namely New Mexico territory and Utah territory. The third bill abolished slave trade in Colombia where businessmen enriched themselves from slave trade but retained slavery in general. A fourth bill provided that Texas disown entitlement to New Mexico as well as North of Missouri. However, Texas would lose boundary claims but the congress agreed to take over its debt. A fifth bill provided that slaves should return to their owners hence favoring the South recover slaves that had escaped. Also, the North were required to return slaves who had escape back to their owners. Following various failed drafts by Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and John Calhoun, the bill was finally drafted by Senator Douglas which saw all the bills passed. The compromise established peace for a long time until the American Civil War aimed at abolishing

slavery.