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Missouri Compromise

Missouri Compromise. Missouri Compromise of 1820. Compromise of 1850. Cause and Effect. North and South torn over slavery. Tension develops over slavery in new territories and states. South threatens to withdraw from Union. The Compromise of 1850. California admitted as a free state.

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Missouri Compromise

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  1. Missouri Compromise

  2. Missouri Compromise of 1820

  3. Compromise of 1850

  4. Cause and Effect • North and South torn over slavery. • Tension develops over slavery in new territories and states. • South threatens to withdraw from Union. The Compromise of 1850 • California admitted as a free state. • Residents of new territories allowed to vote on slavery. • Texas gives up claim on New Mexico. • Fugitive Slave law enacted. • Compromise provides temporary relief from threats of secession. • Slave trade abolished in District of Columbia.

  5. RIGHT: a poster from Boston warning free black to watch out for slave catcher who didn’t care that they were free. TOP: a former slave scarred for life form all the whippings he had.

  6. Kansas-Nebraska Act

  7. Beating of Charles Sumner

  8. Should slavery be allowed in states made out of the Louisiana Territory? Should slavery be allowed in the territory gained from Mexico? California wants to be a free state, how does the South stayed balanced with the North? Unorganized territory needs to be organized, how do we keep the balance of free and slave and still go along with the Missouri Compromise? Write this down (notes) Maine admitted as a free state; Missouri admitted as a slave state; slavery not allowed in Louisiana Territory north of 36°30’ No slavery in California, Utah or New Mexico territories California admitted as a free state; Utah & New Mexico allowed popular sovereignty; slave trade stopped in DC; stricter fugitive slave laws Territory divided into Kansas Territory and Nebraska Territory; slavery chosen by popular sovereignty; repeals Missouri Compromise Missouri Compromise of 1820 Wilmot Proviso of 1848 Compromise of 1850 Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

  9. Free-Soil Party: opposed to the expansion of slavery into the territories, not free from racism. Know-Nothing Party: also known as the American Party, they were against any foreign born people, and anyone Catholic.

  10. Dred Scott

  11. Dred Scott

  12. Dred Scott

  13. Abolitionists

  14. Lincoln-Douglass

  15. Election of Lincoln

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