Part one of term paper
History question: Historians have long debated the cause of the Civil War. Was Slavery the cause of the war? or economic differences? or Constitutional differences? Prove that it was a combination of all three. During the time around 1850, tensions were rising on the issue of slavery between the North and the South. New states were bein ...

Part two of term paper
... to help soothe the tensions on each side. This Compromise had several provisions: California was admitted to the Union as a free state; The territories of New Mexico and Utah were created without restrictions of slavery; The slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C.; Congress passed a stricter fugitive slave law. This compromise showed just how important slavery was to each side, and it gives us a good idea of why it could be important as one of their goals during the Civil War. With slaver ...