💡The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was a compromise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions, allowing Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
🔍The Missouri Compromise aimed to maintain a balance between free and slave states in the Union.
⏳The Compromise of 1850, which admitted California as a free state, established New Mexico and Utah as territories that could decide whether to allow slavery, and passed the Fugitive Slave Act, was another temporary measure to resolve tensions over slavery.
📜The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 mandated the capture of runaway slaves and further intensified anti-slavery sentiment in the North.
🌍Both compromises ultimately failed to address the underlying issue of slavery and only delayed the imminent conflict that would erupt during the Civil War.