Compromise and Southern Fears
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- Missouri will be allowed to join the Union as a slave state- but Maine will also be admitted as free, keeping our Senate Balance.
- Firstly, when Missouri wanted to join the Union, the debate over slavery was taken up once again, as Missouri's admission would disrupt the balance of Senate representation for North and South.Henry Clay came up with a solution.
- In the Pre-Civil War Era of the United States, The North and South made multiple compromises in an attempt to keep the union together and maintain peace.
- And to address the issue on slavery's expansion, a line will be drawn at Missouri's southern border. States North of it will have slavery banned, but south of it will have slavery permitted.
- This compromise only worked for a short while as well, for the Northern refusal of the Fugitive Slave Law and more controversy and division on slavery arose.
- We Northerners want California admitted as free, and to stop slave trade in D.C.
- But that compromise quickly fell apart, triggered especially by the addition of California and other Mexican-gained territories.Another compromise was proposed.
- Then we Southerners will have the other Mexican Territories vote for slavery's legality and pass stricter laws to get back fugitive slaves.
- This decision was hugely unpopular in the North, and a flood of Northerners and Southerners moving to the territories to sway the vote caused bloody conflict over slavery. This conflict was one of the largest kickstarts of the Civil War.
- Finally, after the failure of the two other compromises, the Kansas-Nebraska act was passed.
- Kansas and Nebraska will be created as territories, and will be allowed to vote on slavery's legality!
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