MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
COMPROMISE OF 1850
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compromise
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debates
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authority
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hostility
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Detailed explanation-1: -The issue of slavery was finally resolved when the North refused to compromise, and in 1865 the American people ratified the 13th amendment, abolishing slavery within the United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -Fighting for freedom is an important step to ending slavery, but ensuring that survivors do not fall back into the system is just as essential. A way to help survivors is finding them jobs and helping them adjust to society.
Detailed explanation-3: -The two key points in the debate were racial tensions created from the Dred-Scott decision and Kansas-Nebraska Act, as well as the idea of popular sovereignty. In 1857, The Dred Scott decision made by the Supreme Court ruled that slaves are the property of the owner.
Detailed explanation-4: -Tensions between settlers and former indentured servants increased the pressure to find a new labor source. Early in the seventeenth century, a Dutch ship loaded with African slaves introduced a solution-and yet paradoxically a new problem-to the New World.