https://padlet.com/18hhill/xwss3bho80te Made with whimsy en-us 2018-03-12 15:16:13 UTC 2025-04-04 06:40:24 UTC hello@padlet.com 18hhill https://padlet.com/18hhill/xwss3bho80te/wish/240929239 This is a map of what the Missouri Compromise did to the US. All the blue states are free states and all the red states are slave states. The line from the southern border of Missouri states that anywhere north of this line would be free states]]> 2018-03-12 15:28:09 UTC https://padlet.com/18hhill/xwss3bho80te/wish/240929239 18hhill https://padlet.com/18hhill/xwss3bho80te/wish/240931008 The Missouri Compromise was a deal between congress that admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state. The deal was signed by James Monroe in 1820 amd was mainly to keep the balance between the slave and free states by keeping the same amount(12 slave and free states]]> 2018-03-12 15:30:54 UTC https://padlet.com/18hhill/xwss3bho80te/wish/240931008 18hhill https://padlet.com/18hhill/xwss3bho80te/wish/240935306 At the time of the Missouri Compromise, much of the land in the West belonged to Mexico and the Missouri Compromise only stretched through the Arkansas territory, but Congress knew from expeditions that the West was still very uncharted and unconquered ]]> 2018-03-12 15:37:01 UTC https://padlet.com/18hhill/xwss3bho80te/wish/240935306 18hhill https://padlet.com/18hhill/xwss3bho80te/wish/240947946 2018-03-12 15:52:58 UTC https://padlet.com/18hhill/xwss3bho80te/wish/240947946 18hhill https://padlet.com/18hhill/xwss3bho80te/wish/240947978 Henry Clay who was the speaker of the house in 1820, was instrumental in creating the Missouri Compromise. He combined both the Northerners and the Southerners in allowing both Maine and Missouri to be admitted as states and overall, just wanted congress to work togetherness to make things happen]]> 2018-03-12 15:52:59 UTC https://padlet.com/18hhill/xwss3bho80te/wish/240947978