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The Missouri Compromise was a compromise between the pro- and anti-slavery states. Each side got to admit a state into the union so that the balance in Congress would stay even. It also said that all slavery was banned from former Louisiana Purchase states north of a specific latitude.

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Some people thought the Compromise made the north look too hostile towards the south and made southerners angry and resent the north.

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Essential Question: What political compromises were established for the growing nation and how did they attempt to ease the conflict over slavery in the new states?

The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was established when the people of Missouri wanted to be admitted into the United States as a slave state. This would throw off the balance of slave and free states. After much debate a compromised was reached in 1820 thanks to Henry Clay, who earned the nickname "The Great Compromiser".

The compromise in Congress was that would enter the United States as a slave state and (which was once part of Massachusetts) would enter as . In addition the 36° 30' parallel was established. This said that in the future only free states would be established north of the 36 ° 30' parallel.

The Compromise of 1850
Due to the Mexican Cession and the effects of the Gold Rush of 1849, California was ready to be admitted to the Union as the 16th free state. This would again threaten the balance of power between the free and slave states in the country. Once again Henry Clay came up with a compromise in Congress.
In exchange for letting California enter as a free state, the South was guaranteed that no federal restrictions on slavery would be placed on Utah or New Mexico.

Additionally, Congress passed a more strict Fugitive Slave Law, letting Southern slave owners hunt down slaves who escaped to the North. The new Fugitive Slave Law was disliked publicly in the North and was even criticized in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

The new law created a force of federal commissioners empowered to pursue fugitive slaves in any state and return them to their owners. No statute of limitations applied, so that even those slaves who had been free for many years could be (and were) returned.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The period of compromise started to unravel in 1854. Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois proposed a doctrine of "popular sovereignty" on the issue of slavery in new states. His idea said that the people of the territory would decide for themselves whether that area should have slavery.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820

The Kansas-Nebraska Act infuriated many in the North who considered the Missouri Compromise to be a long-standing binding agreement. In the pro-slavery South it was strongly supported. This led to violence in the Kansas territory led by John Brown, a radical abolitionist. This fighting over the issue of slavery was nicknamed "Bleeding Kansas" and would foreshadow the bloodshed of the Civil War.

What political compromises were established for the growing nation and how did they attempt to ease the conflict over slavery in the new states?

Note Questions:
1. What were the terms of the Missouri Compromise?

2. What were the terms of the Compromise of 1850?

3. Describe the new Fugitive Slave Law.

4. What was Senator Henry Clay's role in these compromises?

5. Describe the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

6. What is the significance of John Brown and "Bleeding Kansas"?

7. How does this period of compromise show that Civil War was inevitable? '

What political compromises were established for the growing nation and how did they attempt to ease the conflict over slavery in the new states?

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Essential Question: What political compromises were established for the growing nation and how did they attempt to ease the conflict over slavery in the new states? The Missouri Compromise The Missouri Compromise was established when the people of Missouri wanted to be admitted into the United States as a slave state.

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Fugitive slaves were slaves who ran away from their owner without authorization.

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5 new laws that were added after the Mexican-American War. They allowed California to be added to the union as a free state, allowed Utah and New Mexico to choose if they wanted to be slave states, redrew the border of Texas and New Mexico, let Washington DC own slaves but not trade them, and made it easier for slave owners to get back runaway slaves through the Fugitive Slave Act.

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Canyon Vista Middle School US HISTORY VOCABULARY

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Compromise of 1850 The Compromise of 1850 was reached after heated debates concerning the statehood of California. California wished to be added to the US as a free state, but this upset the...

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The Fugitive Slave Act was if an officer suspected that a African American was a runaway slave they had the right to arrest them. This sparked a huge argument between the Northerners and the Southerners.

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The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854 was an act for all new states to pick if they were going to be a free state for a slave state.

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After the Nebraska-Kansas Act, both pro- and anti-slavery people came into the new territory to vote that Nebraska and Kansas should or shouldn't be slave states. The difference in views eventually turned violent and people from both sides committed horrible crimes.

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Preston Books a Pro-slavery Southerner walked to Senator Charles Sumner and hits him unconscious with a cane in a courthouse. Brutal actions similar to this continues to happen more than 70 times.

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Dred-Scott was a slave whose owner moved to Illinois (a free state) Dred-Scott knew this and sued his owner for freedom. This case was so big it went to the Supreme Court, sadly Dred-Scott was denied but it caused arguments with the Northerners and the Southerners.

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Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas were both competing to be illinois representative in the senate They had 7 debates that touched on a lot of national sensitive topics and although douglas was re-elected and lincoln lost it was the first time a republican got more votes in the state.

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Lincoln was the very first Republican president of the United States. If he hadn't won slavery would have spread to a lot more states. He didn't want slavery  in America at all any more and as president he could end it by starting the Civil War.

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This was the last event before the Civil War, this event made it start. When the southerners officially broke the alliance with the Northerners that started the war.