Yes, it was a rather desperate deal, with concessions to the South to compensate for their agreement to admit California to the Union as free soil.One of these was the Fugitive Slave Act, which...
The compromise of 1820 is the missouri compromise and it prohibited slavery in unorganized territory of the great plans. The compromise of 1850 amitted california as a free state.
On January 29, 1850, the 70-year-old Clay presented a compromise. For eight months members of Congress, led by Clay, Daniel Webster, Senator from Massachusetts, and John C. Calhoun, senator from...
The Missouri compromise had something to do with allowing Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state and everything south of the Louisiana purchase was slave states and north of the Missouri...
They were both concerned with the acquisition by America of vast new territories, and the debate over which of the forthcoming states would be slave and which would be free..In the case of the land...