Compromise: an agreement to give up something in order to gain something else
Two major Compromises of the Antebellum Period:
1. Missouri Compromise: (1820) maintained balance between slave and free states- Maine enters as free state, Missouri enters as slave state
2. Compromise of 1850- California admitted as free state, Fugitive Slave Law passed, slavery banned in Washington DC---- balanced thrown off in Congress more free states than slave states
Two major Compromises of the Antebellum Period:
1. Missouri Compromise: (1820) maintained balance between slave and free states- Maine enters as free state, Missouri enters as slave state
2. Compromise of 1850- California admitted as free state, Fugitive Slave Law passed, slavery banned in Washington DC---- balanced thrown off in Congress more free states than slave states