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The 1850 Compromise was an agreement between the North and South that allowed slavery to continue in states where it already existed but prevented its expansion to new states. The North wanted slavery abolished but agreed to the compromise to prevent conflict, while the South wanted to expand slavery to new territories but agreed to limit it to existing slave states. This compromise differed from previous agreements in that it addressed the ongoing issue of slavery rather than other topics.
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Events that led_to_the_american_civil_warJonah Howard
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The document summarizes key events that led to the American Civil War:
1. Economic and political tensions grew between the industrial North and agricultural South. The North opposed slavery's expansion while the South defended it.
2. The Mexican-American War and subsequent territorial acquisitions exacerbated tensions over the balance of slave and free states.
3. Events like the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, and Dred Scott decision further polarized the nation on the issue of slavery in the territories.
4. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president as the first Republican, prompting Southern states to secede and form the Confederate States of America.Causes of the Civil War
Causes of the Civil Wartrichmond
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The document summarizes many of the key events and issues that contributed to rising tensions between the North and South leading up to the American Civil War. These include the passage of fugitive slave laws, the Dred Scott decision, debates over the expansion of slavery, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and cultural differences between the largely agricultural slave-holding South and industrial North. The election of Abraham Lincoln, who opposed the expansion of slavery but could not end it where it existed, was the final spark that led Southern states to secede and the Civil War to begin with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in 1861.Baileychap17
Baileychap17Zeeland Public Schools
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1) The document discusses the expansion of the United States in the 1840s under the ideology of Manifest Destiny, which held that American settlers were destined to expand across North America.
2) It outlines the election of James K. Polk in 1844 and his agenda to annex Texas and acquire Oregon and California from Britain and Mexico.
3) Polk provoked a war with Mexico by moving troops into disputed territory along the Rio Grande river, leading to clashes where American blood was shed on American soil, allowing Polk to ask Congress to declare war to seize California and the Southwest from Mexico.
4) The war was very successful militarily for the US, resulting in the acquisition of over 500,000 square milesHow did the issues of sectionalism reemerge in 1850, what was the pr.pdf
How did the issues of sectionalism reemerge in 1850, what was the pr.pdfarmsnoida
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How did the issues of sectionalism reemerge in 1850, what was the proposed solution, and what
were the debates on each side?
History of US from 1812 to 1912
Solution
In 1848 the acquisition of new territory from Mexico through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
renewed the sectional debate that had gripped the nation during the admittance of Missouri. The
question of whether the new territory would allow slavery was the main question, with Northern
Congressmen hoping to limit slavery and Southern Congressmen hoping to expand the territory
in which it was legal. Soon after the war began, Democratic Congressman David Wilmot
proposed that territory won from Mexico should be free from the institution of slavery. Called
the Wilmot Proviso, the measure failed to pass Congress and thus never became law. This served
to unify the majority of Southerners, who saw the Proviso as an attack on their society and their
Constitutional Rights.
The influx of population led to California\'s application of statehood in 1850. This created a
renewal of sectional tension because California\'s admission into the Union threatened to upset
the balance of power in Congress. The imminent admission of Oregon, New Mexico, and Utah
also threatened to upset the balance. Many Southerners also realized that the climate of those
territories did not lend themselves to the extension of slavery. Debate raged in Congress until a
resolution was found in 1850.
With the failure of the Wilmot Proviso, Senator Lewis Cass introduced the idea of popular
sovereignty in Congress. In an attempt to hold the Congress together as it continued to divide
along sectional, rather than party lines, Cass proposed that Congress did not have the power to
determine whether territories could allow slavery since this was not an enumerated power listed
in the Constitution. Instead Cass proposed that the people living in the territories themselves
should decide the slavery issue. For the Democrats, the solution was not as clear as it appeared.
Northern Democrats called for \"squatter sovereignty\" in which the people living in the territory
could decide the issue when a territorial legislature was convened. Southern Democrats disputed
this idea arguing that the issue of slavery must be decided at the time of adoption of a state
constitution when the request was made to Congress for admission as a state. Cass and other
Democratic leaders failed to clarify the issue so that neither section of the country felt slighted as
the election approached. After Cass\' defeat in 1848, Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas assumed a
leading role in the party and became closely associated with popular sovereignty with his
proposal of the KansasNebraska Act..Causes of civil war 1 detailed
Causes of civil war 1 detailedvirtualcampus
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- The document discusses the events leading up to the American Civil War, including the issue of slavery in new western territories which divided the North and South. Key events included the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the Dred Scott decision of 1857, John Brown's raid in 1859, and Lincoln's election in 1860, which prompted seven Southern states to secede and form the Confederate States of America.CHAPTER 6 CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR, Politics and Rebellion, 1850.docx
CHAPTER 6 CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR, Politics and Rebellion, 1850.docxrobertad6
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CHAPTER 6: CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR, Politics and Rebellion, 1850-1860
Contents
Introduction and Pre-Reading Questions: 1
Documents: 7
Document 1, Slave Anthony Burns Describes his Capture via the Fugitive Slave Act (PBS.org, 1855) 7
Document 2, The Boston Post and The Southern Press Review Uncle Toms Cabin (University of Virginia, 1852) 8
Document 3, John Brown writes to his father about Bleeding Kansas (Digital History, 1855) 12
Document 4, The Dred Scott Decision, 1857 (PBS.org, 1857) 13
Document 5, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Freeport, Illinois, 1858: Senator Douglas explains Popular Sovereignty (ushistory.org, 1858) 14
Document 6, John Brown Speaks to the Court in his trial re: the Raid on Harpers Ferry (PBS.org, 1859) 15
Document 7, Lincoln Argues that the Republican Party only wants to limit the expansion of slavery, not destroy it where it currently exists, 1860 (Abraham Lincoln Online, 1860) 16
Document 8, South Carolinian William Gibson Explains the Secessionist Sentiment in South Carolina (Digital History, 1860) 19
Document 9, Lincolns Response to Secession in his First Inaugural Address (Library of Congress, 1861) 19
Post-Reading Exercises: 20
Works Cited 21
Introduction and Pre-Reading Questions: The idea of Manifest Destiny suggested to Americans that we, as a people, as a nation, were destined to spread our settlement, spread our ideology, spread our democracy and civility to the westernmost regions. This migration to the Far West, however, brought to the surface some of the issues that had really challenged the federal government and national unityissues dealing with slavery. The Missouri Compromise, it seemed, had solved the issues over the spread of slavery, but as Texas, New Mexico, the Oregon territory and California began applying for statehood, it quickly became clear that the slavery issue was far from solved. In fact, it would be the slavery issue that would simmer below the surface as tensions between the North and South rose. The 1850s opened up with the Compromise of 1850, which was supposed to deal with the issue of slavery in territories obtained from Mexico, as well as some other issues surrounding slavery. Though the Compromise was ultimately passed, the spirit of compromise was missing which signaled that the slavery issue had not been fully dealt with.
One of the pieces of legislation embedded in the Compromise of 1850 outlined a Fugitive Slave Act. This Act legally obligated Northerners to assist in the capture of fugitive (runaway) slaves and the return of those fugitives to their southern owners. Additionally, the Slave Act declared that any official or federal marshal would be subject to a $1,000 fine for not assisting in the recapture of runaway slaves. This became such a hot issue because: a) many people living in the North at this time were anti-slavery; and b) after the Compromise was enacted, some southerners began coming to the North to recapture slaves who had escaped from them yea.1850 keynote
- 1. 1850 Compromise Desirhea Morton, Alexis Bae, Kennady Engelhardt , and Isabelle Wright
- 2. What is a Compromise?? An agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making an agreement
- 3. Compromise Made between North-South The states that already had slavery were able to keep it, but slavery wouldnt expand to states that didnt previously have/ allow slavery
- 4. What the north wanted They wanted slaves to be free human beings.
- 5. What the south wanted They wanted the southern part of California for slave territory
- 6. What changed since the last major compromise Slavery is not a big problem any more in the U.S.A .
- 7. How did it differ from the last agreement It differs because the 1850 compromise was on slaves and the Dutch Ritual compromise involved killing to many animals.
- 8. Citations icurio american history website