Before Compromise:
After Compromise:
The Compromise of 1850 was passed in September of 1850 and was enacted to even the number of the free and slave states due to the Mexican-American War. The Compromise was drafted by Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky. The results of the compromise of 1850 were the Civil war, no slave trade in Washington D.C, California resulting as a free state, and rising tensions over slavery. The GA platform was basically a statement stating that the Compromise of 1850 was the final resolution to the sectional slavery issues, and that the North could no longer judge or assault the Southerns choices of their rights regarding slavery. The Kansas-Nebraska act created the new states of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories in order to determine weather they should allow slavery in those states. The main purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska act was to open up new farm land and to make a new Transcontinental Railroad.
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