The Missouri Compromise :: American America History

The molybdenum CompromiseA compromise is when ii or more parties in disagreement reach an agreement that does non give all sides exactly what they want, but enough of what they want so that they can be happy. Compromise is the best possible solution to a battle however it does not always work. One needs notwithstanding to look at situations such as the Bosnia-Herzegovina to see that. During the events prior to the American Civil War, many different compromises were made in an attempt to delay the growing disagreements. However this merely prolonged the inevitable. The differences between North and southeasterly were far to great and compromise did not stand a risk at preventing the impending conflict. This was most clearly shown in the ways in which the three main compromises, the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, failed.In 1820 Missouri precious to join the Union as a striver state. As this would burst the balance between slave states and Free states in the Senate, Henry frame proposed the Missouri compromise. This arranged it that while Missouri was admitted as a Slave state, Maine was also admitted as a free state. It also created an imaginary beginning along the 36o latitude, where thrall was allowed below it but prevented above it. However they hold in themselves by only applying the Compromise to lands gained in the Louisiana purchase. This led to conflict after the Mexican war in which America gained new territories in the West. This doomed the Missouri Compromise, which was probably the most promising of the three. Had the Compromise been apply to all American lands then perhaps it could have succeeded. Instead the Missouri Compromise failed and only led to further conflict between labor union and south in the future.In 1849 once again the Union was approach the same crises it had faced in 1820. California now wanted to be admitted as a free state. Once again Henry carcass came up with a compromis e to resolve this conflict. California would indeed be admitted as free while the rest of the Southwest territories would decide the slavery issue by popular sovereignty. It would also abolish slavery solely in Washington DC and initiate a stronger fugitive slave law to appease the South. This last concession angered people in the North however. Free blacks were concerned as now a Southerner could institutionalise any black person as being a hoyden slave.