Development Of Free States Vs. Slave States

At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. In the years leading up to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, tensions began to rise between proslavery and antislavery factions within the U.S. Congress and across the country. They reached a boiling point after Missouri’s 1819 request for admission to the Union as a slave state, which threatened to upset the delicate balance between slave states and free states. To keep the peace, Congress came up with a two-part compromise, granting Missouri’s request but also admitting Maine as a free state. It also passed an amendment that drew an imaginary line across the former Louisiana Territory, establishing a boundary between free and slave regions that remained the law of the land until it was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.

If asking an average person on what started the Civil War, one would probably answer with slavery. However, there were several other reasons for why the Civil War took place. The South wanted to succeed mainly for the same reason the Colonies succeeded from British Powers. The South wanted their independence. The South wanted to escape the tariffs that were being placed on them by Andrew Jackson, just as the British were putting tariffs on the colonies. The tariffs created a very hostile atmosphere that was pushing the states’ decisions to secede from the Union. These tariffs would reduce the amount of money the South could take in, because foreign countries could not afford to buy much cotton because lack of their exported income from the tariffs. Vice President, John Calhoun proposed that the states have the right to nullify a federal law that not only can protect the welfare of the states but it also violated the Constitution. Once Calhoun proposed this nullification, to the South it became clear that the North could wield power that could damage the South’s economy. The South believed that they were fighting against a tyrannical government that the North were subjugating and enslaving them. The South really disliked the high taxes, which isn’t it one of the main reasons that our previous generations fought against in the Revolutionary

Before the Civil War started, the North and the South argued on two main topics: slavery and state rights. In my opinion, it was because of slavery that state rights were argued. When Western territories were annexed from Mexico, they were admitted to the Union with the condition that that slavery be banned through the Wilmot Proviso (History.com). Because of this, slave states felt they were unfairly treated and outnumbered. The religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening also gave way to new ideology. Combined with the growing abolitionist sentiment, Northern states began taking action against Southern states. Because their rights as

In 1819, the nation created a balance Senate with eleven free states and eleven slave states. In the other words, the free states and slave states have equal representation in Senate, but the balance eventually destroyed when the Missouri Territory wanted to enter the United States as a slave state. The Northern states opposed Missouri to enter the United States as a slave state while the Southern states favored it. They, later on, created the Missouri Compromise that Maine enters as a free state, Missouri enters as a slave state, and any territory/state north of the 36°30′ latitude line would be free territory/state and below it would be slave territory/state. President Thomas Jefferson viewed this compromise as being temporary because as the nation moves west (manifest destiny), slavery would increase. The United States expand from just the west of Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean and to Mexico when America fought in the Mexican-American War. America won but the Massachusetts House of Representation believed that the war would lead to the expansion of slavery or slave states (Doc.#4). Mexico gave up California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, part of Colorado, and part of Mexico, but California’s admission created conflict. It created an unbalance

One of the key factor contributing to the Civil War was States Rights. This refers to the struggle between federal government and individual states over political power. One side argued for greater state’s rights and those arguing felt that the Federal Government needed to have more control over states. The states felt they should have the right to decide if they were willing to accept certain federal acts. Meaning that states had the right to rule federal acts unconstitutional. The federal government denied states this right. When nullification would not work and states felts that they were no longer respected, they moved towards secession from the Union. The southern people were viewed as democratic and depended slaves for the plantations, they were devoted to agriculture and shipped cotton up north and favored low tariffs.

3.     The Compromise of 1850- The compromise of 1850 consisted of 5 laws passed in September of 1850 that had to do with the issue of slavery.  When California wanted to come into the union as a free state it threw off the balance between free and slave states.  The compromise was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was taken out. Furthermore, California entered the Union as a free state and a territorial government was created in Utah. Also, an act was passed settling a boundary dispute between Texas and New Mexico that also established a territorial government in New Mexico.

The Civil War arose through the desire of southern states that wanted to secede from the Union when Abraham Lincoln became the sixteenth president of the United States. These states believed that Lincoln’s point of abolition of slavery would harm them. Therefore, they declared for the secession. However, the Federal Government never wanted the separation in the country, so they rejected this declaration and tried to preserve the Union. This led to the Civil War in which the Federal Government got the final winning.

In 1819 Missouri requested for an admission to the Union as a slave state. So that threatened to upset the delicate balance between slave states and free states. Now to keep peace, they were granted Missouri’s request for a free state but also admitting Maine as a free state. The Missouri compromise took place in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Now the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was conflict having to do with the balance of slave states and free states. At the time, the US had twenty-two states, and there was a perfect balance of slave and free states. Missouri had a request to become a slave state, but that meant that the slave states and free states would be uneven and went against the law written by Henry Clay in 1818. His law was that there had to be an equal number of slave and free states. Slavery wasn’t allowed north of the latitude 36°30.´ To fix this problem, congress created a two part compromise which included Missouri to become a slave state. To help balance it out the other part of the compromise was to add another state which was free, this state was Maine.

Broadly speaking, the Civil War arose because of the fact that northerners and southerners became divided over various political, economic and social issues during the early nineteenth century. This phenomenon, known as “sectionalism,” came about mainly because of the differences in the economic structures of the north and the south. As Klein says in this regard, the conflict between the two sections of the country were increased “as the northern states moved increasingly into commerce and manufacturing while the southern states expanded their agricultural economy into a plantation system based on slave labor” (36). Because of the differences in these two economic systems, northerners generally took one side on important political issues while southerners generally took the opposing side, creating animosity between the two. This sectionalism that eventually led to full-on secession and the Civil War between the north and south quickly escalated due to many issues, including economics and politics, but much of the divide lied on the issue of slavery.

The issues of slavery between North and South was indirectly the cause of the beginning of civil war. Since the North changed their minds about the black population, they had a difficult time with the South, with they believe that Africans had to serve white people. So the problem between the North and South wasn’t something new, it was happening since the government was trying to prevent spread out of the slavery across America, as a result, South started to create, manipulate, and change the laws in their territories to keep the control of the slaves. Also, they had the idea to hide all laws that the North created to favor the slaves. For example, all the mails that came from North, they immediately destroy them to keep the people of southern completely incommunicado from the new laws. Another measure that they made was to make the North believe that Africans were happy to be a slave in the South, in other words, they created propaganda showing the slaves having a good life in the South. Because they was playing with the life of the black people, showing that they will do whatever to avoid lose the law that they had to use black people as slaves. But the real situation that cause the beginning of the civil war was the final decision that south made to protect their slaves. By separating from United States and becoming an independent country, the South obtained the capacity to ignore future treatise about slavery. That is why the civil war began in America,

During the first few decades of the 1800s, the U.S was eager to expand. They were not even a century old, and wanted to keep gaining more power. The Compromise of 1820 was drawn up over disagreements over slave states. Missouri wanted to be added to the Union, but they would be admitted as a slave state. This would make the representation in the Senate of slaveholding versus nonslaveholding states unequal; thus, this compromise was written by Henry Clay. It stated that "in all that territory...which lies north of thirty-six degrees, and thirty minutes north latitude...slavery...is hereby, forever prohibited." (Doc A) In addition, Maine was added as a nonsalveholding state. This was a temporary solution to the problem of a divided nation. This compromise failed to

Piecing Together the Creation of “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” Literature is often impacted by the experiences the author has had and the time period in which it was written. The Civil War era affected works that were created during that time. The story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce exhibits this influence as it is written with the aid of the experiences he had during the war when he was enlisted. Although some claim certain events in Bierce’s life never affected him, others suggest that Bierce may have incorporated them into his writings.

The southern states which seceded were; South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina who attempted to form a southern Confederacy on equal terms to the Union in the north. Throughout the seventy three history of the United States up to 1860, there had always been rivalry between the north and the south of the country. This was based in their culture, economy and ideas, for example, the North were generally unionists, supporting the supremacy of the Federal government, the South were generally more state orientated, supporting the rights of individual states to run their own affairs. The contentious issue of slavery had many implications. The South depended economically on the institution. There was one industry - cotton - due to the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney (ironically a northerner) in 1793 which made cotton production very profitable. Profits soared making slavery an even greater institution. Between 1800 and 1860, the number of slaves increased from one to four million - this was despite slave importation being banned in 1808. The South was dependent on this one industry which depended on slavery, without slaves the southern economy would collapse. The Northern economy did not rely on slavery, they had an industrial base. It

The American Civil War, the bloodiest war in all of American history, was a conflict over the bitter issue of slavery. Although the moral controversy of slavery had been debated for some time, the underlying concern in the mid-1800s was the disagreement over different interpretations of the separation of powers in the Constitution. The South argued that the states were meant to have a considerable amount of self-sovereignty, therefore having the right in determining themselves if slavery was to be allowed. On the contrary, the North thought that the founding fathers aimed for a strong, collective union. The vagueness of slavery in the Constitution left much to be desired, as it addressed almost nothing about it. By the 1850s, slavery was rooted so much in the southern economy that it was feared plantations and the cotton industry would collapse if slaves were freed. The southern states seceding from the Union, and soon thereafter the Civil War, was a result of ¬the structural failures of the Constitution and a conflict over economical and territorial resources.