History Case

Compromise of 1850- After Clay left leadership of Senate, Stephen Douglas took his place in order to resolve the predicament, so Douglas divided the compromise that Clay made that was not passed into smaller bills. Congress passed all the bills from Douglass. President Fillmore called this compromise a "final settlement" between the North and South. The Compromise of 1850 did relieve the tension, but more conflicts arose eventually. Fugitive Slave Law- Clay or the "Great Compromiser" came up with resolutions to help resolve conflict between the North and South. One of his resolutions was to pass a fugitive slave act to help the Southerner retrieve the enslaved African Americans who ran away to the North. The reason he came up with these resolutions was so the South can be relieved from the fear that once California joined the union the North would not use its control to abolish slavery.

Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854- In 1853, Douglas was preparing to organize a new territory called Nebraska. The Southern senators were preventing the bill from coming to a vote, they told Douglas that if he wanted Nebraska, he needed to repeal the Missouri Compromise and allow slaver in the new territory. Douglas knew that by repealing the Missouri Compromise this is going to create conflict, so he proposed that Nebraska should be allowed to have popular sovereignty, and let the people decide whether or not they wanted the state to allow slavery. Later Douglas proposed a new bill to allow slavery in the region and also to divide the region into two territories: Nebraska and Kansas. Nebraska would become a fee state and Kansas would be a slave state. Douglas's bill infuriated the Northern Democrats and the Whigs, they believed that they broke the Missouri Compromise and increased the spread of slavery, so leaders of the congress got enough support from people to pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 due to the disagreements.

Dred Scott v. Sanford-