Simply because it was a compromise - offering each side only part of what it wanted.
As both sides were equally dissatisfied wirh it, however, it managed to preserve the balance, and it kept the pece for thirty years, until the admission of California defeated the terms of the compromise.
Henry Clay was the one who drafted the compromise of 1850 and the Missouri compromise of 1820.
The Missouri Compromise was not 1850 but 1820, and it was engineered by the politician Henry Clay. It was also Clay, in his old age, who was called out of retirement to engineer the Compromise of 1850.
They made the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
The correct chronological order of the events is as follows: the Three-Fifths Compromise (1787), the Missouri Compromise (1820), the Compromise of 1850 (1850), and finally the Emancipation Proclamation (1863). The Three-Fifths Compromise established how slaves would be counted for representation, the Missouri Compromise addressed the balance between slave and free states, the Compromise of 1850 dealt with issues arising from the Mexican-American War, and the Emancipation Proclamation declared the freedom of slaves in Confederate states during the Civil War.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 lasted 30 years. The US remained divided on where slavery could exist and thus the Missouri Compromise of 1850 was enacted.
Henry Clay was the one who drafted the compromise of 1850 and the Missouri compromise of 1820.
The Missouri Compromise was not 1850 but 1820, and it was engineered by the politician Henry Clay. It was also Clay, in his old age, who was called out of retirement to engineer the Compromise of 1850.
They made the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
The Missouri Compromise, which prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the 36°30' N parallel except within the boundaries of the proposed state, was part of the law passed on March 6, 1820 admitting Missouri as the 24th state in the Union.
Three-Fifths Compromise, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Emancipation Proclamation
it caused slavery to expand in to the north.
the Missouri compromise, the 3/5 compromise, and the compromise of 1850 no it was thethe Missouri compromise, the 3/5 compromise, and the compromise of 1850
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 lasted 30 years. The US remained divided on where slavery could exist and thus the Missouri Compromise of 1850 was enacted.
admitting equal number of free and slave states
There were two Missouri compromises. The one in 1820 determined the slave/free status of new states within the territory acquired from France in the Louisiana Purchase. The second one, the Compromise of 1850 did the same thing for the territories acquired from Mexico after the Mexican war.
the kansas nebraska act, of the compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise of 1820 Compromise of 1850 (including Fugitive Slave Act) Kansas-Nebraska Act Crittenden Compromise