The Maine, Missouri, Clay's, or Henry's compromise
Henry Clay, a member of Congress from Kentucky, found a solution. Missouri would join the nation as a slave state. Maine would join as a free state. In this way the balanced… (MORE)
Tariffs particularly favored the North and their manufacturing plants. By imposing a Protective Tariff on imports from foreign lands, the Northern manufacturers would benefit because since imports from foreign nations, say Britain, were now very expensive, natives would buy from the much cheaper Northern manufacturers. This is what it means to be "protective." It was "protecting" the factories in the North. The South particularly disliked these tariffs because they did not have any interest in the North benefiting from their money.
What was the series of Henry Clay's proposals that were adopted by Congress called?
The Maine, Missouri, Clay's, or Henry's compromise
The Compromise of 1850
That doesn't make sense.
With the Compromise of 1850 Clay had specific proposals for achieving a compromise, including his idea for Texas' boundary. He also wanted to exclude slavery from the Southwest. Clahoun was on the opposite end as far as the slavery issue and felt any states and territories in the Southwest should be slave states. Webster came in and brought the two points together and helped form what would be the compromise based on the two positions.
Stop cheating you fools
Because of support by representatives
Henry clays plan
Some people favored Henry Clay's proposed compromise while others said that we should just let slave states secede from the Union.
Because southerners opposed paying for roads and canals that brought no direct benefits and therefore opposed clays american system as a result. (:
Some people favored Henry Clay's proposed compromise while others said that we should just let slave states secede from the Union.
Some people favored Henry Clay's proposed compromise while others said that we should just let slave states secede from the Union.