Division+and+Compromise+9b

This page is about how the Union and the Confederates were spliting, So they had to make Compromises.

Fist you need to know
 * The South feared that the North would take control of Congress, and southerners began to proclaim states' rights as a means of self protection (this is what the acuall notes say, but this basicly means, the south were FOR states' rights, to protect themselves.)
 * The North believed that the nation was a Union and could not be divided
 * While the Civil war did not begin as a war to abolish slavery, issues surrounding slavery deeply divided the nation

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

An Important issue separating the country related to the power of the Federal Government

Southerners believed they had the power to declare any national law illegal (uhm, wow...)

Notherners believed that the national government's power was supreme over that of the states -

OPINIONS ON SLAVERY

Southerners felt that the abolition of slavery would destroy their regions economy

Norhterners believed that slavery should be abolished for moral reasons -

3 COMPROMISES

1) Missouri Compromise
 * Missouri was a slave state, but Maine would be free.

2) Compromise of 1850
 * California was right in the middle of the border between free and slave states, so California was free, but southwest territories would decide

3) Kansas-Nebraska Act -
 * People decided the Slavery issue (popular sovereignty)

But even though they were compromising, they could not get past all the issues.

AKiRA C00K C0R3 2 5-19-08