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Objective: To examine the causes and effects of the conflict that erupted over the proposed statehood of Missouri. Do Now: Read the following quote by Abraham Lincoln.
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Objective: To examine the causes and effects of the conflict that erupted over the proposed statehood of Missouri. Do Now: Read the following quote by Abraham Lincoln. “‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.’ I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease too be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it…or its (supporters) will push it forward till it shall become…lawful in all the states, old as well as new, North as well as South.” What point is Lincoln making about the future faced by the United States?
The Missouri Question - Northerners were against adding Missouri to the union as a slave state because it would disrupt the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states. Balance of Free and Slave States (1819) Original 13 States Free States Slave States
Balance of Free and Slave States (1821) Missouri Compromise • Missouri was admitted to the union as a slave state, and Maine was admitted as a free state. Maine (1820) Missouri (1821) Original 13 States Free States Slave States
• An imaginary line was drawn across the southern border of Missouri at the latitude 36 30'N. 36 , 30’
• Slavery was allowed in the part of the Louisiana Purchase south of the latitude 36 , 30'N. • Slavery was banned north of 36 , 30'N, except for Missouri. Sectionalism – loyalty to a state or section rather than to the whole country.
36 , 30’ According to the Missouri Compromise, would the following states be allowed to become slave states? Kentucky YES
36 , 30’ According to the Missouri Compromise, would the following states be allowed to become slave states? Kansas NO
36 , 30’ According to the Missouri Compromise, would the following states be allowed to become slave states? Utah YES
Missouri Compromise in a Nutshell (2:19) 36 , 30’ According to the Missouri Compromise, would the following states be allowed to become slave states? Missouri YES