MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
COMPROMISE OF 1850
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Clay hoped to avoid a Civil War with the compromise of 1850.
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Clay wanted to expand slavery into all western territories.
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Clay wanted to outlaw slavery in all western territories.
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Clay wanted to punish the North for it’s role in the Underground Railroad.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Fearful of the growing divide between North and South over the issue of slavery, he hoped to avoid civil war by enacting a compromise.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1849 California requested permission to enter the Union as a free state, potentially upsetting the balance between the free and slave states in the U.S. Senate. Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South.
Detailed explanation-3: -The immediate result of the Compromise of 1850 was to avert the threat of dissolution of the United States. The secession of the South and creation of the Confederacy was postponed for a decade. The concept of popular sovereignty was soon to result in a proxy civil war in the Kansas Territory.