https://padlet.com/69035/3fycy6avfxvdbm3i Overview en-us 2020-10-26 14:42:48 UTC 2026-03-17 22:05:58 UTC hello@padlet.com 69035 https://padlet.com/69035/3fycy6avfxvdbm3i/wish/861968156 As Missouri was moving through the statehood process in Congress, Benjamin Tallmadge gained support to ban slavery in Missouri due to unproportioned Southern power in congress due to the 3/5 clause. ]]> 2020-10-26 14:43:48 UTC https://padlet.com/69035/3fycy6avfxvdbm3i/wish/861968156 69035 https://padlet.com/69035/3fycy6avfxvdbm3i/wish/861986417 Congressmen finally agreed in 1820 to admit Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state. This 1:1 new slave state to free state ratio repeated itself until the civil war. Furthermore, the compromise stated that slavery in the Louisiana territory north of the 36° 30´ latitude line was prohibited. ]]> 2020-10-26 14:47:33 UTC https://padlet.com/69035/3fycy6avfxvdbm3i/wish/861986417 69035 https://padlet.com/69035/3fycy6avfxvdbm3i/wish/861999778 The Missouri compromise planted the seeds for the divide between democratic-republicans which would grow due to the issue of slavery between 1820 and 1865. This divide became ruthless and at some points violent between senators and boiled over when the South seceded from the Union, starting the Civil War. ]]> 2020-10-26 14:50:13 UTC https://padlet.com/69035/3fycy6avfxvdbm3i/wish/861999778 69035 https://padlet.com/69035/3fycy6avfxvdbm3i/wish/862014787 'In 1854, the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Three years later the Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision, which ruled that Congress did not have the authority to prohibit slavery in the territories'- Library of Congress. The Dred Scott decision rules slaves as property that weren't free regardless of what state they were in. ]]> 2020-10-26 14:53:13 UTC https://padlet.com/69035/3fycy6avfxvdbm3i/wish/862014787 69035 https://padlet.com/69035/3fycy6avfxvdbm3i/wish/862024521 Ultimately the abolitionists got their way, yet the South (and sometimes North) has discriminated against black Americans ever since the Emancipation Proclamation (1863). ]]> 2020-10-26 14:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/69035/3fycy6avfxvdbm3i/wish/862024521