Issues Before the Civil War

By TNteam • Feb 16th, 2008 • Category: Academics

[Great American Fact Finder]

Missouri Compromise 

(March 3, 1820), legislation dealing with the extension of slavery to new areas of the country. When Missouri applied for admission to the Union, the balance of slave and free states was eleven each, which meant that slave and free states had equal representation in the Senate. Admitting Missouri as a slave state would upset that balance of power…

Compromise of 1850

a series of acts through which Congress hoped to solve the dispute between abolitionists in the North and slaveholders in the South over the question of slavery in the territories gained in the Mexican War. Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and Stephen A. Douglas supported the compromise; John C. Calhoun led the opposition….

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