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>
Reconstruction was designed to rebuild southern states after the Civil war through physical,social,economic and political changes and aid.
Explanation
Reconstruction was the plan Abraham Lincoln and it was meant to integrate the southern states into the union. After the Civil war between the south and north,South was completely destroyed.
The economy of the south was completely dependent on agriculture and reconstruction intended to bring economic reforms to make south not so agriculture dependent and several changes in infrastructure were to be made.
The correct answer for the question that is being presented above is this one: "Thomas Edison." Thomas Edison improved the incandescent light bulb and he made it possible to quit using oil lamps as a source of light, which sometimes unsafe.
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Explanation:
The cartoon portrays England as an imperial power that has its metaphorical tentacles stuck into various countries
Suffrage, women’s rights, temperance, health reform
