Nullification Crisis, State's Rights and Missouri Compromise

During the Civil War era, there was a big debate on state's rights about how much power anyone state could hold. What many people don't know is that slavery was outlawed in the original constitution, but because many southern states like Georgia and Virginia needed slaves for the plantation owners to make a profit so the founders of this  nation ratified it so everyone in the country would like it and keep the country united. Also in 1828 the U.S. government enforced a tariff on imported goods. This made Southerners pay a increased cost of goods from other countries. John C. Calhoun said that the states had a right to not follow the law. Eventually a law was passed to lower the tariffs, bu there still were high tensions between the north and the south.

                                                                             Pictured Below is John C Calhoun

 

Also, in the year 1820 there was a compromise called the Missouri Compromise, which basically meant that from now on for every free state to enter the union and slave state must also enter the union. This is also called the Mason Dixon Line or  36º30' Parallel for anything above it was free soil and anything below it was a slave state. But back to the Missouri, since they needed one more state to join America. This is where Maine comes in. So Maine would become an free state and Missouri would become a slave state. But this only provided temporary relief for the tension between north and south.

 

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