The Outcomes of the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 Essay

The shot fired that started the Civil War was inevitable because of the South. In our persecutive we feel that the events that transpired before the civil war were unconstitutional, and inequitable. Slavery is immoral and a threat to middle-class families and character. The Missouri Compromise violating the law that drew the line through all the rest of the lands of the Louisiana Purchase, excluding slavery from the north of the parallel of 36 30', triggered every event that led up to the civil war. Missouri shouldn't have been admitted as a slave state because if we do so there will be more slave states than free states and this will give us a great disadvantage in the national government. It is north of the 36 30N parallels so right there it is contradicting the law of free states and slave states. The Missouri Compromise said that they would add a free state for every slave state added. This got the North and South nowhere into settling the disputes over slavery. Also there should not even be any slave states to begin with. In a way the Missouri Compromise did help us out in the North because it kept the power in the government equal, yet it was still a tremendous cause of the Civil War. The Compromise of 1850 replaced the Missouri Compromise. The Compromise helped us though by letting us grow in manpower, railroads, and factories. Even though it helped us, the Compromise provoked the Civil War. It was designed to balance the interests between North and South, and it was unsuccessful in doing that. The abolishment of the sale of enslaved people was a equitable act.Yet, the Fugitive Act should not have taken place at all, and the Compromise of 1850 did nothing but postpone the Civil War for 10 years. The South should just learn to accept California as a free state, and should make their states free too. Runaway slaves...

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