Was The 1850 Compromise Successful
. Dominant slave-holding elements in Missouri objected to letting Kansas become a free territory for their state would then have three free-soil neighbors Illinois Iowa and Kansas. The Compromise of 1850 resulted in a series of measures meant to disarm sectional conflict and resolve several legal and territorial issues surrounding the institution of slavery.
Dominant slave-holding elements in Missouri objected to letting Kansas become a free territory for their state would then have three free-soil neighbors Illinois Iowa and Kansas. The Act was one of the most controversial elements of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a slave power conspiracy. The 1850s pronounced eighteen-fifties was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1 1850 and ended on December 31 1859.
The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was passed by the United States Congress on September 18 1850 as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern interests in slavery and Northern Free-Soilers.
It was a very turbulent decade as wars such as the Crimean War shifted and shook European politics as well as the expansion of colonization towards the Far East which also sparked conflicts like the Second Opium War. Under terms of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 the entire region was closed to slavery. The Compromise of 1850 resulted in a series of measures meant to disarm sectional conflict and resolve several legal and territorial issues surrounding the institution of slavery. The crisis began when the territory of California requested to be admitted to the Union in 1849 with a state constitution prohibiting slavery.
