HIST 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Nebraska Territory, Fugitive Slave Laws, Industrial Revolution
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The cotton boom of the south and industrial revolution in the north created two different economies, labor system, culture and the way they look the world. By 1850, there were so many americans in california to get rich. The compromise of 1850: the california issue. Half of the california was above 3635 and half above the woods. Everyone was hoping clay can use his political resolutions: clay"s resolutions. They are collectively known as compromise of 1850. The compromise 1850, admitted california into the union as free state. And finally the compromise left the status of slavery left it open to the settlers in the territory. Almost every single southernerners voted againt the compromise. Almost every single northern congressmen voted what the southerners wanted. It was not suprising the compromise came apart. The threat was not about slavery in south west but it was about fugitive slave wall.
