SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
TENSION OVER SLAVERY IN THE 1850S
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it would make the North a separate country from the South.
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it could tip the balance in Congress on the issue of slavery.
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it could make all slaves in the South immediately free.
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it would get rid of slavery once and for all.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Congress adopted this legislation and admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time, so that the balance between slave and free states in the nation would remain equal.
Detailed explanation-2: -During the war, Congressman David Wilmot introduced the Wilmot Proviso, a proposal to ban slavery in any new territory acquired from Mexico.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Missouri Compromise was ineffective in dealing with the issue of slavery because it increased sectionalism between Northern and Southern states. Instead of solving this issue of slavery in new territories Congress only increased the tension between North and South.
Detailed explanation-4: -Compromise of 1850, in U.S. history, a series of measures proposed by the “great compromiser, ” Sen. Henry Clay of Kentucky, and passed by the U.S. Congress in an effort to settle several outstanding slavery issues and to avert the threat of dissolution of the Union.