They believed that all southern slaves should be emancipated. ... After the Missouri Compromise, hostility between the northern and southern states grew stronger. ... In 1850 Southern democrats supported the compromised of 1850. ... Southern extremists opposed any limit on the extension of slavery, but settled for now. ... This compromise allowed abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia and admission of California as a free state. ...

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Many Southern preachers proclaimed that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible. ... Southern extremists opposed any limit on the extension of slavery, but settled for now. ... This compromise allowed abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia and admission of California as a free state. ... Because slavery was such an important part of Southern society, the South felt that they could not survive without it. ... Southerners hoped the threat of succession would force acceptance of Southern demands, but it did not. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Northern states had an economy system based on capitalist industry, while southern states maintained the slavery. ... California would enter as a free state; New Mexico would be given separate territorial status; Texas would be paid $10.000.000 for ceding its claim to New Mexico, thereby allowing it to pay its debts; and Utah would be given territorial status. (175) But President Clay died in July 9, 1850 and Vice-president Millard Fillmore took measures that delayed the War but also created some differences between northern and southern countries. Northern states wanted to keep the Union, an...

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Many Southern preachers proclaimed that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible. ... Southern extremists opposed any limit on the extension of slavery, but settled for now. ... This compromise allowed abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia and admission of California as a free state. ... He hoped to simplify construction of a transcontinental railroad through these states rather than through the southern part of the country. ... Because slavery was such a important part of Southern society, the South felt that they could not survive without it. ...

• Word Count: 2119
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• Grade Level: High School

The Missouri compromise said that Missouri would be a slave state and Maine would be admitted as a free state, it also said that any state in the Louisiana Purchase north of Missouri's southern border would be a free state. ... Then in 1850 California requested admission to the union as a free state. California was the first state applying for state hood in the Mexican Cession. Southerners feared if California was a free state the rest of the territory would be too. ... The first part was that California would be admitted to the Union as a non-slave state. ...

• Word Count: 1554
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• Grade Level: High School

Though the Southern economy boomed because of cotton, it did not modernize, largely because the South became too dependent on cotton. Many Southerners felt that if slavery were to be abolished in the United States, the Southern culture would disappear with it, because Southern culture by 1860 was completely immersed in a slave society. ... The compromise of 1850, which admitted California to statehood as a slave state, enacted the fugitive slave law, and allowed the Utah and New Mexico territories to be "received into the Union, with or without slavery," was appr...

• Word Count: 2247
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• Grade Level: High School

Due to northern focus on industry and southern focus on agriculture, sectionalism developed among the states. ... The Compromise of 1850 was created to appease both regions; it stated that California was to enter the Union as a free state but that Utah and New Mexico would decide upon the issue based on the concept of popular sovereignty (Document C). ...

• Word Count: 1260
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate