The 1800s Were A Tumultuous Time For The United States Of America. At That Time

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Term Paper Title	The 1800s Were A Tumultuous Time For The United States Of America. At That Time
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The 1800's were a tumultuous time for the United States of America.  At that time the south was typically slave and the northerners were traditionally for freedom.   The slave states of the south and the abolitionist in the north were quarreling and the government recognizing that made efforts to stop or delay the civil war.  In 1819 Missouri wanted to enter the Union a slave state.  At this time the 22 states of the Union were divided evenly 11 slave and 11 free.  Northern states were afraid that if Missouri entered as a slave state it would give the south a majority in the senate.  Southerners argued that since the north had a majority in the House of Representatives that it was only fair that they had a majority in the senate.  Then in December 1819 three northern counties of Massachusetts broke away and asked to be admitted to enter the Union as a free state(Maine).  This made the Missouri Compromise possible.  The Missouri compromise said that Missouri would be a slave state and Maine would be admitted
as a free state, it also said that any state in the Louisiana Purchase north of Missouri's southern border would be a free state.  This action delayed a deadly confrontation between the North and the South, at least for awhile.

     Then in 1828 congress raised the tariff on imported goods.  In the south they didn't have very much industry so they had to import most of their good, so the tariffs were unpopular their.  One state that protested this action by congress.  Since the North had more industry, the South felt that congress was protecting the North by raising these tariffs.  South Carolina was the strongest protester of these tariffs. South Carolina supported John C. Calhoun who said that a state could nullify or veto a national law within it's own boundaries.  In 1832 South Carolina's state legislature declared the tariff acts of 1828 and 1832 null or void.  They went even further by saying that if the government tried to make them pay the tariff they would break away from the union.
     Then President Andrew Jackson, who had said that the union must be preserved, stated that he strongly opposed this nullification.  Jackson also let it be know that he would send 50,000 troops into South Carolina.  This action scared South Carolina, and when they asked other states for help they got no promises of military aid.  Finally seeing that his state was in bad shape John C. Calhoun asked Henry Clay to help him come up with compromise.  They came up with a ...

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