Compromises

The North and South tried to make many compromises in the 1850's to try and solve the disagreement between North and South about slavery. Many worked for a short time, but they ultimately failed and the United States eventually fell into civil war.

Missouri Compromise- 1820 This compromise said that anything above 36' 30 would be a free state and anything below this would be a slave state. This was to try and maintain the balance of slave states and free states. It also admitted Maine as a Free state and Missouri as a slave state.

Compromise of 1850 This was a compromise in which the south said that California could enter the union as a free state, but their must be stricter fugitive slave act.

The Kansas Nebraska Act- 1854 The United States was debating where to run the railroad to the west. They could either go north of the Rockies or south. Stephen Douglas proposed that they run the railroad through the north. But first, the territories must be settled in, in order to protect the railroad. The Nebraska Territory was divided into Kansas and Nebraska and organized. Slavery was to be decided by popular sovereignty. This resulted in an enormous amount of people flooding into Kansas and Nebraska, trying to give their vote to make it a slave or free state. In Kansas, It became violent and resulted in Bleeding Kansas.

Lincoln Douglass Debates-1858 These debates were a series of 7 debates between 2 Illinois Senator Candidates about resolving issues, especially about slavery.