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This 5 page paper discusses the legislation that was enacted in a vain attempt to avoid the American Civil War. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Abolition efforts were as old as the nation itself, so that the controversy over slavery was always part of the countrys heritage. In seems as though the decades leading up
to the war were a time of ever-increasing tension and violence that finally had to be released. At the same time, attempts were made to avert the crisis that many
people saw coming. This paper discusses the efforts made to stop open war between North and South, and what the outcome might have been if the war had occurred in
the 1830s instead of the 1860s. Discussion The various compromises in general arose out of the struggle over whether or not new states coming into the Union would be admitted
as free or slave states. The Compromise of 1820, more commonly known as the Missouri Compromise, is an important landmark in the fight over slavery. Until 1819, the slave-holding South
and the free North co-existed somewhat uneasily, but still peacefully. As the nation expanded westward, it did so laterally; people moved directly west, in other words. Since the Northwest Ordinance
of 1787 had banned slavery in the "northern section of trans-Appalachia" it was generally assumed that any states adjacent to the free northern states would be free states while those
adjacent to the South would be slave states (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 256). Then in 1819 Missouri, which is adjacent to both Illinois, a free state, and Kentucky, a
slave state, applied for admission to the Union (Faragher et al, 2000). The controversy was immediate and predictable: the South wanted it admitted as a slave state; the North as
a free state. After almost a year of furious debate in the Senate-the first protracted debate about slavery and the first time Southerners openly talked about secession-a compromise was reached
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