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A 4 page paper which examines the efforts to stave off the Civil War as seen through the Compromise of 1820 through to the Compromise of 1850. The Nullification Crisis of the early 1830s is discussed as well. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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many agreements, building tensions, compromises, and other conditions that ultimately did not prove to work, with the result being Civil War. The following paper examines the Compromise of 1820, the
Nullification Crisis of the 1830s and the Compromise of 1850 as they involved the building of tensions towards war. Compromise or 1820 The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was
a compromise that involved Missouris desire to join the Union as a state, despite the fact that they owned slaves. Missouri approached the House of Representatives with their request and
"Many of the members were not sure they wanted to allow slavery to spread legally to new states. Members from the Southern states supported the admission" (Bushong, 2005). This led
to major heated discussions and debates until a compromise was offered up in 1820. This compromise was one that would be seen several times again, in many ways,
in order to maintain a balance within the Union. The compromise was that Missouri, a slave state, could join the Union, but that Maine, a free state, would join the
Union as well (Bushong, 2005). However, having a balance did not solve the problems of slave and free states. For the next years there were many decisions about what slave
states and what free states could join the Union in order to maintain a balance wherein slave states never had the upper hand it seems (Bushong, 2005). Nullification
Crisis The Nullification Crisis began when Jackson was all but forced to face off against South Carolina in relationship to the protective tariff (U.S. Department of State, 2005). South Carolina
was becoming poorer because they were bearing high prices and they felt that the protective tariff was benefiting the North and not South Carolina (U.S. Department of State, 2005). It
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