USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Clay became a full-throated advocate for the establishment of a national bank in 1816 and for liberating South American colonies from Spanish rule. He was also instrumental in crafting and passing the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which proved a short-lived solution to the growing national debate over slavery.

Detailed explanation-3: -Henry Clay was known as “The Great Compromiser.” He helped our nation avoid civil war-but only for a time.