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Missouri Compromise

            After the years of the Jefferson President and his embargo and with the panic of 1819, many penny pinched people looked to the west. They saw a way to start over with inexpensive land that came in bundles. In fact, the Land Act of 1820 authorized buyers to purchase 80 acres of the virgin land at only $1.25 an acre, but it had to be purchased in cash. But as more people moved to the west, more states tried to join the Union. As more states entered the Union, the sectional balance begun to untangle. The free North began to argue with slave South over whether the western states should be admitted as slave states or free states.
             In 1819 Missouri requested for admission as a slave state. But the House of Representatives foiled the request by passing the incendiary Tallmadge amendment. It said that no more slaves could be brought into Missouri and that all children born to slave parents be free. Anger exploded from the Slave-holding southerners, poor pioneers who favored unrestricted expansion of the west and many northern federalists who saw this as an opportunity to break the "Virginia dynasty." Eventually the South managed to defeat the Tallmadge amendment in the senate. .
             When the Constitution was adopted, the North and South were about equal in wealth and population. But decade after decade, the North grew in wealth and population. It showed with the increasing northern majority in the House of Representatives. But even with the outnumbering North, the South was able to maintain equality since each state had 2 votes in the senate. And at the time, there were only 11 free states and 11 slave states. .
             Missouri was the first state to be made from the land from the Louisiana Purchase and West of the Mississippi. And the close threat from the Tallmadge amendment would have set a precedent for the rest of the area. And if the amendment was permanent then what would stop congress from doing the same to the older slave states? This extremely worried the Slave South.


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1. Missouri Compromise

... Territories, and in the new states to be formed therefrom are to be left to the people residing therein, through their appropriate representatives- It was a clever dodge since the Missouri Compromise would still exclude slaves until the territorial government had made a decision, preventing slaveholders from getting established before a decision was reached. Southerners quickly spotted the barrier and Douglas as quickly ... how people could get so wrought up over abstract rights. Yet he had in fact opened the possibility that slavery might gain foothold in Kansas. The agreement to repea...

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2. The Missouri Comprimise

... which continued until February 1820 (Appleton). The Tallmadge Amendment would have ceased the import of slaves into Missouri and progressively freed those already in oppression there. This stage of the disaster dissipated with the original Missouri Compromise, which approved Missouri to enter the Union deprived of a limit on slavery, but also allowed the liberated state of Maine ... holy idol. Set slaveholders' obsession for state dominance, Representative Daniel Pope Cook of Illinois disbelieved whether they would upkeep the prohibition of slavery north of the recommended Missouri Comp...

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3. The Missouri Compromise

... been tolerated in the constitution only by necessity and ought to be restricted" This everlasting debate lasted until the next year when the Missouri Compromise was introduced. The Missouri Compromise was the replacement and answer to the Tallmadge act, which it excluded. The Missouri Compromise was lead by Congressman Henry Clay came as a two part solution to the admission problem. The first part of the ... compromise was that Missouri would be admitted into the union as a slave state, but to keep things even, Maine would now become a state that was free. Secondly, the compromise exclu...

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4. The Compromise of 1850

... both the North and the South to get what they wanted. The Compromise would split the country and no side would have what they wanted. The South wanted the 36∘ 30' line, which was originally stated in the Missouri Compromise, extended through the territories. The Northerners believed in the Wilmot Proviso, ... which would have abolished all slavery in the territories gained from the Mexican War. The Compromise was California was to become a free state but the rest of ... . The Union could not save itself; people no longer had the cheerfulness they did before for the Union. Calhoun...

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5. Compromise Of 1850

... members of Congress, led by Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun, senator from South Carolina debated the compromise. With the help of Stephen Douglas, a young Democrat from Illinois, a series of bills that would make up the compromise were ushered through Congress. According to the compromise, Texas would relinquish the land in dispute but, in compensation, be given 10 million dollars; money it would ... withdraw from the Union altogether. To pacify slave-state politicians, who would have objected to the imbalance created by adding another free state, the Fugitive Slave Act was pa...

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6. The Expansion and Abolition of Slavery

... of the stick. Many Southern congressmen felt they had been strong armed into a bad deal by abolitionist congressmen. While the Missouri compromise was the first battle in congress over free and slave states, it would not be the last. After the Missouri Compromise, debate over slavery seemed to die down in congress. However, abolitionists were looking for ways to gain more support for their ... statehood and the battle over free or slave state was ignited once again. This time however it should have been a relatively easy call for congress given the provisions of the Missouri compromise....

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7. the era of good feelings

... Monroe in the beginning of his presidency in the Era of Good Feelings. Monroe was a key figure in helping lessen sectional tensions a little. He made great decisions such as the Missouri Compromise and the Monroe Doctrine during his presidency. His actions were wise as he settled many disputes in this era. James Monroe played a great role in the beginnings of the United ... chunks. Slavery was a big issue during this time period. In fact, it was one of the major issues of this era. This problem led to the Missouri Compromise during the Era of Good Feelings. The Missouri Compromise was n...

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8. American Expansion

... because it involved the question of extending slavery into the territories. The dispute was resolved by the Missouri Compromise, which admitted (1821) Missouri to the Union as a slave state but excluded slavery from lands of the Louisiana Purchase north of lat. 3630'N. By 1818, Missouri Territory had gained sufficient population to warrant its admission into the Union as a state. Its settlers ... despite these difficulties, could no longer be postponed. Four attempts to organize a single territory for this area had already been defeated in Congress, largely because of Southern opposition...

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9. Civil War

... slaveholdings. The South wanted to protect their states rights. The first evidence of the North's actions came in 1819 when Missouri asked to be admitted to the Union as a slave state. After months of discussion Congress passed the Missouri Compromise of 1820. This compromise was legislative measures that regulated the extension of slavery in the United States for three decades. Now the balance of ... by Mexico was divided into the territories of New Mexico and Utah, and they were opened to settlement by both slaveholders and antislavery settlers. This measure outdated the Missouri Comp...

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