Compromise Of 1861

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south without giving either a majority.
In 1820 a north and south dispute sprang up again, this time it was about the position of new states that entered the Union, whether the new states were going to be closed or open to slavery. In 1819 Missouri applied for statehood, both north and south want Missouri, because it would give the majority to whoever was fortunate enough to get a hold on Missouri. James Tallmadge tries gradual emancipation of slaves; it was rejected in the Senate where the South had an equal amount of representatives (twenty-two of forty-four). Next, Henry Clay takes his turn at the problem and comes up with the Missouri Compromise that stated that Missouri could enter the Union as a slave state, but the free states would get Maine as a free state, leaving twelve free and twelve slave states. It also drew up the thirty-six degrees thirty minute line in the Louisiana territory. Anything above that line would be a free state and below it would be a slave state. Once ...

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the U.S. Congress faced another problem, that involved the North and south once again. The South was upset because California had come into the Union as a free state. Congress comes up with the Compromise of 1850, that stated that California would come in as a free state, but the southerners would get a strict fugitive slave law, the Fugitive Slave Act. The compromise also eliminated the slave trade in Washington DC, but it didn't come up with a final solution to the north-south problem it simply pushed the problem back a few years.
The Compromise of 1850 would be the final peaceful solution to the problems between the North and south. From 1854 on, it would be all downhill for the United ...

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