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Tuesday, March 5, 2019

How and why compromises preserved the union until the southern states decided to leave the union in 1861?

Civil war within the United States was unavoidable the question was when it was going to happen. The issue of slavery was big enough to decompose the demesne culturally and politically, civil war was bound to happen, in fact, its amazing it was avoided for so long. The single most important reason war was averted for so long was the mevery compromises made in the years forward that go ab placeed to keep the southerns and northerns content in the house and senate.However, with a country in the midst of major territory expansion, population increase, and technological advancements, the years of a coupled nation were numbered. Conflicts over slavery will deepen with expansion, abolitionism, sectionalism, and issues over demesnes rights. To sustain these conflicts, compromises such as the 3/5 compromise, bit compromise, compromise of 1850 and the fugitive slave act, and the Kansas-Nebraska act were made. Daniel Webster speaks on behalf of a join nation that succession will d estroy our country (doc B).When the compromise of 1850 is issued to settle the dispute over California being admitted as a lay off of slave state, The Fugitive Slave Act accompanies it to make sure that the southerns cast down something out of it too and dont feel cheated (doc O). This act states That when a person held to service or labor shall escape into another state may pursue and reclaim such fugitive person (doc C) This allowed repose to be held mingled with the northern and southerns. Abolitionists were extremists who acceptd slavery should be abolished.Among those, the very noted and feared illusion Brown is probably most recognizable. He went on a killing streak, handing out weapons to slaves and hated by the southerns and most northerns as fountainhead (doc P). He believed that war was the only answer to keeping a united nation as discernable in his last words, I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty play will never be purged away but by blood. (doc F). An attempt by a northern named David Wilmot to keep slavery out of the impertinently acquired territories from Mexico was presented to the House and Senate in the Wilmot Proviso.It states Acquisition of any territory from the republic of Mexico by the United States neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever in any part of said territory (doc M). However it never passes the Senate, which was heavily dominate by southerns. Many states pass laws that prevent any persons from speaking out or publishing anything against slavery or the abolition of slavery or any thing that would spark rebellion in slaves. The federal political sympathies over looked this even though it was in contrast to the constitution because it was design to help keep the southerns from succession (doc L).In 1860, shortly before the war started, the Republicans prevail the House and Senate (doc Q). This obviously was a key reason for the democrats to escape the compact and start the confederate states. Plus, the southerns believed is states rights and that they should be able to do with their states what they wanted, a evident in Franklin Pierces speech when he says, I believe that the constituted authorities of this Repubic are bound to regard the rights of the South in this respect as they would view any other legal and thoroughgoing right. (doc H). In 1861, of course, is the beginning of the civil war.With too much tension and execration between the northerns and southerns, it was time for it to happen. The compromises could only hold for so long, the population differences between the north and south were too big to never interfere with the sides.

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