Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act, Georgia Platform and Kansas-Nebraska Act

The Missouri Compromise was in 1820 when the state of Missouri was admitted into the United States as a slave state. However, they needed to keep the balance of free and slave states so Maine was admitted as a free state. They decided to not let slavery north of the 36 30 Parallel. When California wanted to join it would make the free-slave state numbers uneven so California was allowed as a free state. Since California was free, Texas gave up land and received $10 million. Slavery was then abolished in D.C to balance it out and the fugitive slave act was passed. This was known as the Compromise of 1850. The Fugitive Slave Act was if northerners found runaway slaves they were forced to return them to their owners. This made the northerners mad since they were against slavery. The slave act also made more federal agents to enforce the laws so it was harder to get away with anything and people were also denied a jury trial. Georgia Platform was also in 1850 along with the Compromise and the Slave Act. The Platform was when Georgia agreed to the Compromise with their own terms. The North had to obey the Fugitive Slave Act and couldn't try to ban slavery in new territories. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was when Kansas and Nebraska would vote on weather they would have slavery in their states or not. It repealed the Missouri Compromise when they did this.


This is a map of the United States after the Missouri Compromise.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Missouri_Compromise_Line.svg

 
This is a map of the United States in 1850 after the Compromise.
http://www.compromise-of-1850.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Compromise-of-1850-map.jpg

 This is a poster when a slave ran away so they could be returned.
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