Prior to the Civil War, the issue of slavery was considered one of the main problems facing the Union. This was because some states in the nation allowed slavery, while some others were "free states." The numbers of each side needed to remain equal in order for a balance of power to be maintained. The addition of any other territory threatened such an order.
California was such a state. It had grown tremendously due to the gold rush, and it now petitioned to join the Union as a free state. A compromise was presented by senator Henry Clay. He proposed to accept California as a free state. However, in order to pacify politicians from slave states, he also proposed the Fugitive Slave Act. The act required citizens (including those living in free states) to assist in the recovery of fugitive slaves. This compromise was known as the Compromise of 1850.
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 South Carolina, debated the compromise. With the help of Stephen Douglas, a young Democrat from Illinois, a series of bills that would make up the compromise were ushered through Congress.
<span>According to the compromise, Texas would relinquish the land in dispute but, in compensation, be given 10 million dollars -- money it would use to pay off its debt to Mexico. Also, the territories of New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah would be organized without mention of slavery. (The decision would be made by the territories' inhabitants later, when they applied for statehood.) Regarding Washington, the slave trade would be abolished in the District of Columbia, although slavery would still be permitted. Finally, California would be admitted as a free state. To pacify slave-state politicians, who would have objected to the imbalance created by adding another free state, the Fugitive Slave Act was passed.</span>
<span>One of the primary reasons that conquered people converted willingly to Islam was due to the spread of trade. Islamic individuals set up major trade meccas throughout all these areas, Then, they had the opportunity to spread their religion. They were seen as more high class than Christian individuals, and their religion was given more respect. They didn't have to pay certain taxes and they had more freedoms based on the law. Thus it was appealing to many to convert in order to get these special privileges and freedoms.</span>
To go against dharma leads to bad karma, while living according to dharma brings good karma, this is true in Hinduism because this is the ideology of Hindu religion and their belief on the eternal concept of atman. Dharma means religion or religious values while karma means the result of action. Those individuals which go against religion, the result of this action will be bad while if the individuals which follow religion, the result of this action will be good.
Prejudice and discrimination towards Mexican Americans in the west led to the educational backwardness of Mexican Americans.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Mexican Americans came to America as immigrant laborers being forced to suffer the hardships of poverty in their homeland. Economic crisis within the US triggered the development of hostility towards immigrant laborers. Mexican Americans were not considered white or black by the US people.
The Mexican Americans themselves didn’t consider them to be white or black and found it difficult to answer questions about race. Being a stigmatized community that faced discrimination for several years Mexican Americans became educationally backward when compared with the non-Hispanic people.
