Analysis: The Antebellum Era

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In the Antebellum Era, the Pre-Civil War Era, the North and South states enacted different resolutions to relive tensions between divisional lines over the issues of states as a free or slave state. Between the years 1820-1860, to try and resolve the tensions the federal and state government authorized compromises such as the Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. In passing these compromises the government’s compromises didn’t resolve any issues , but eventually worsened the issue, and political disputes broke out , for instance the gag rule worsened the tensions in 1836 and then between 1855-1861 the massacre of Bleeding Kansas broke out. At this point secession of the South from the North seemed inevitable.