MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
COMPROMISE OF 1850
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Question
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Draw a line dividing the country:anything South would be open to slavery and anything North would be free
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Establish if California is to be a free or slave state
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Admit Texas into the Union
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Enforce the Fugitive Slave Act
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Detailed explanation-1: -This so-called Missouri Compromise drew a line from east to west along the 36th parallel, dividing the nation into competing halves-half free, half slave. The House passed the compromise bill on March 2, 1820.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Court proclaimed the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional, asserting that Congress did not have the authority to abolish slavery in the territories. Eventually, the North and South’s vastly different views on the moral issue of slavery led to the outbreak of the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Missouri Compromise was meant to create balance between slave and non-slave states. With it, the country was equally divided between slave and free states. Admitting Missouri as a slave state gave the south one more state than the north.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.