Investor Presentaiton
The Compromise of 1850.
While the Missouri Compromise stopped
the debate in Congress for a while, the
nation was still in turmoil over the
issue of slavery. Abolitionists sent
thousands of anti-slavery petitions to
Washington D.C. Congress decided to
avoid addressing those petitions in
1836.
In 1831, Nat Turner staged a slave
rebellion and more than 50 white people
were killed. Fears of further uprisings led
The Mexican
Cession
to stricter slave laws. Meanwhile, slaves continued
to assert their right to freedom by running away. Some
sympathetic Northerners began helping those slaves to freedom.
Then in 1846, war with Mexico broke out, and the U.S. ultimately won the war. Congress
now had to decide whether to allow slavery in the new land.View entire presentation