Question

Match the compromise to one of its main points.

Answer 1

• 1820 Missouri Compromise

Created a dividing line at latitude 36° 30'

The Missouri Compromise was a law that was passed to admit Main as a free State of the United States at the same time Missouri was considered a slave state. It was needed so a balance was maintained between pro-slavery states and free states. As a part of it, a parallel was drawn on 36 30’ which prohibited slavery north of the parallel, excluding Missouri.

• The Wilmot Proviso

No territory gained from Mexico should become a slave state.

The Wilmot Proviso was a proposal of an law that aimed to prohibit slavery in all territory that was acquired from Mexico following the Mexican-American War. Although it wasn’t successful the debate it sparkled lasted for some years.

• 3. Kansas-Nebraska Act

Divided the Nebraska territory into two parts

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was an Act that divided the Nebraska Territory into two parts: Nebraska and Kansas. But the problem was that the Act violated the Missouri Compromise since both territories should not be allowed to have slaves because of its location north of 36, 30’N. With that, they let the population decide if the states should be slave free or not, which brought up a series of conflicts.

4. The Crittenden Compromise

Proposed six amendments to the Constitution

The Crittenden Compromise was a proposal that aimed to express the right to have slaves on the US Constitution, this way it would be unconstitutional to ban slavery in the future. It consisted of six constitutional amendments. It was introduced in 1860 and it had popularity between Southern members of Senate but president Abraham Lincoln opposed the compromise and both of the House of Representatives and the Senate rejected it.