What Would You Do? Journal

Henry Clay vs. John C. Calhoun Who’s Side Are You On? “The Great Compromiser” who wanted the North and South to agree on slave and free states Developed the Compromise of 1850 plan, in which: Fugitive slaves who escaped to the north for freedom must be returned or citizens risk $1,000 fine and a 6 month prison sentence California was admitted to the U.S as a free state Insisted on allowing Western States be slave territories He felt that southern slave owners held the rights to their “property” (slaves) and they should be returned Believed that the southern states should secede from the United States if Congress could not come to an agreement