The Compromise Of 1850: Slavery In The United States

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What is a slave? What is secession? A slave is a person who is the property of another. In the case of the U.S the slaves were Africans, and owned by white Americans typically in the South. Secession is the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state. Slavery was a major problem in the country because it was literally splitting the country apart. The North was almost completely against slavery while the South was trying to keep slavery around as long as they can to keep their economy alive. The North and South were reaching a breaking point and the South was about to secede. Also, there were many differences between the North and South. One being slavery, and another being the new president of 1860, and the third being the large difference in their …show more content…

Two compromises were made to give the South a chance. “The Compromise of 1850 introduced into Congress by Henry Clay was designed to settle the slavery question arising from the new western lands acquired after the Mexican War… California enters the Union as a free state; Utah and New Mexico Territories are opened to slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty...” (Document 1, Paragraph 1). Did they take on the offer and let the North have their way? No. Each side had little satisfaction. The South still complained that the plan wasn't to give slavery a chance, it was to stop and/or slow the spread of slavery. They knew very well what that meant. The end of slavery entirely. These stressful agreements between the two parts of a united country were having too much of an effect on a few southern states. Basically if they didn’t get their way, they were going to secede meaning they would break off into their own country or

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