JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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The Cabinet
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the number of pro and anti-slavery congressmembers
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The number of pro and anti-national bank congressmembers
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The number of pro-and anti-Indian Removal Act congressmembers
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Detailed explanation-1: -Clay’s proposal would admit California to the Union as a free state and organize New Mexico and Utah as territories without any restrictions on slavery. Other provisions in Clay’s compromise included a more effective fugitive slave law and the abolition of the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
Detailed explanation-2: -If passed, the North would gain California as a free state and an end to the slave trade in Washington, D.C., while the South would get a stronger fugitive slave law and the possibility of western slavery through popular sovereignty. This compromise, Clay insisted, represented the “reunion of [the] Union.”
Detailed explanation-3: -The Missouri Compromise was accepted because it: 1) maintained congressional balance in the Senate, 2) allowed for certain new territories to be slave states, and 3) allowed certain new territories to be non-slavery states.
Detailed explanation-4: -To preserve the Union, Clay’s compromise proposed to bring California into the Union as a free state; allow the New Mexico Territory to decide the slavery issue for itself; and retain slavery in the District of Columbia but abolish its slave trade.