Compromise+of+1850

In January 1850, Senator Henry Clay suggested a plan in which California would enter the Union as a free state while New Mexico and Utah would become territories with no specific prohibition on slavery. Was Clay's compromise: • Necessary to settle the fierce debate over California, which intensified tensions between the North and the South and threatened to split the Union? (PRO) • A misguided plan that upset both Northerners, who wanted slavery banned in the West, and Southerners, who opposed the admission of another free state? (CON)

PRO: Southern states want to leave the union because of the disagreement over california and weather or not it should enter the states as a free state or slave state.

CON: well i dissagree with that because if California become a slave state it would give the south more power.

PRO: that is true but secession of the southern states would lead to war

CON: I hear what your saying but it is also not a good idea to make New Mexico a slave state because the weather is not good for farming.

PRO: Again this is true but supporters pointed out the southern threat of secession and a compromise was needed to end that threat.

CON: Parts of the compromise would anger both the north & the south so.

PRO: That is true but for both sides the good outweighted the bad