Federalism
...very, however, the southerners believed new states should all be slave. To try and better the situation, the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were developed by both sides. The Missouri Compromise divided the newly added states evenly by stating that all states above the 36’ 30’ parallel would be free, including Maine, and all below would become slave, including Missouri. This was a temporary solution to a virtually unsolvable problem. Try as they may, the issue would not go undisputed, and in 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act took a turn for the worse when debates led to an election in Kansas. In the midst of people rushing in from other states to vote, over 200 people died, thus the event received the name “Bleeding Kansas.” These were both exceptional attempts to resolve the free/slave issue, unsuccessful as they were. Following the disagreement of whether new states should be free or slave, a little more than five years later, the Reconstruction period called for disputes on how much rights the recently freed black slaves should get. Upon the 13th Amendment of the Constitution, African Americans would no longer be slaves, but free. However, the south believed that these recently freed slaves were still not the same as the rest of the Americans, and did not deserve the same rights. In lieu of the slaves getting freed, the north made the 14th and 15th amendments. However, giving slaves citizenship (the 13th) and giving them the right to vote (the 14th) could not stray the south from their ideas of prejudice inequality of slaves. In retaliation, the south developed the black codes, which were a series of codes that limited the rights of former slaves, trying to keep them in conditions closer to...