The Compromise of 1850

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This paper takes a look at some of the serious events that followed the American legislation known as the Compromise of 1850. This "compromise" outlawed the actual trade (buying and selling) of slaves, yet it also required federal officials to track down and arrest fugitive slaves. The paper looks at the resulting events of the Compromise of 1850 and how these might have combined and led the South to secede from the Union, thus causing the Civil War.

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"The Compromise of 1850 was a piece of American legislation drafted and passed in order to squash the divisive debate over slavery that had been pressing the separated country closer and closer to secession and disintegration. Created and championed by Senators Henry Clay, a southerner, and Stephen Douglas, a northerner from Illinois, the Compromise was not a cure-all for the nation's problems and divisions, but was "as one Southern editor correctly noted, it was "the calm of preparation, and not of peace" ("The Impending Crisis"). This short essay will look at the resulting events of the Compromise of 1850 and how these might have combined and led the South to secede from the Union, thus causing the Civil War. One of the main provisions of the Compromise of 1850 was that it outlawed the slave trade."

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