SA 27: COMPROMISEBy Jessica Craig

Analyze the Missouri Compromise.• Missouri and Maine

• Slave states vs. free states

• Political power

• Slavery laws

What were the terms of the Missouri Compromise?• Missouri enters as a slave state.

• Maine enters as a free state.

• Prohibited north of 36 degrees 30’ latitude

• Proposed laws of slavery: importing in Missouri made illegal & children of slaves set free when they were 25.

• Politicians in the South- feelings?

Why was it proposed? Why was it necessary?• Slave states and free states

• Prevent conflict from rising

• Missouri and Maine

• People don’t get mad- everyone is happy!

Who proposed it?

Henry Clay

What was the Missouri Compromise supposed to address? • Trying to create peace between the North and the South

• Political power

• 22 states in the Union: Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois

Why did it fail?

• Power between slave and free states

• Peace didn’t last long

What were the terms of the Compromise of 1850?• Fugitive Slave Act- new slave laws• Slave trade ends in the capital. Slaves still allowed.• California entered as a free state• No interference with District of Columbia’s slavery policy• New Mexico and Utah decide: Popular Soverignty• Texas debts would be paid by the government• Texas give land east of the Rio Grande to Mexico• Congress have nothing to do with the interstate slave

trade

Fugitive Slave Act• Part of the Compromise of 1850• Runaway slaves in the North• People were paid for catching slaves• $10/ every slave sent back to the South• $5 for every accused free black person• Free-born slaves were forced into slavery• Canada• More protection for the blacks• Amended previous Fugitive Slave Act of 1793

Why was it proposed?

• Settle differences

• California

• Equal amounts of power in the government

• John C Calhoun’s speech

Who proposed it?

Henry Clay on January 29 “The Great Compromiser”

How did the Compromise of 1850 attempt to resolve conflicts over the expansion of slavery?

• “ The Great Compromiser”

• Compromises

• Didn’t want the Union to be broken up

• Neither side was happy

Why did it fail?• Nobody was happy with the outcome.

• Fugitive Slave Act had a large impact on the Northerners

• Left lots of contention in its wake

• Only postponed war

• Used to ignite the Civil Ear

What were the terms of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Proposed in 1854

• Allowed being able to choose if slavery was allowed or not

• Kansas and Nebraska were annexed

Why was it proposed?• Encourage western movement

• Transcontinental railroad

• Republicans: non-slavery in the west

• Mostly benefited the North

Who proposed it?

Stephen A Douglas- Democrat from Illinois

Why were antislavery Northerners angry about the Kansas-Nebraska Act?• Repealed Missouri Compromise

• Not a permanent law

• Slavery away from them

• ‘My way or the highway’ viewpoint

Why did it fail?• Pretty much deleted the Missouri Compromise

• Balance and equality was broken

• Peace and War democrats

• Political power

• North and South became angry

What occurred in Kansas?• Kansas wanted to vote immediately.• Votes leaned towards the ‘free state’ option• Pro-slavery people moved into Kansas to try and

overwhelm the voting system• Mobs• Riots• Desperate things• Destruction of property and homes• Free State Hotel burned• Loss of about 200 people and about 2 million dollars in

property damage

How did Northerners and Southerners react to events involving Kansas?

• Northerners sent settlers to Kansas to make it a free state.

• South heard that 20,000 Northerners were moving to Kansas, sent troops into Kansas to vote.

• Fought for control of Kansas

What were the consequences?• 200 people were lost

• About 2 million dollars were lost in damage to property

• David Atchison “with the bayonet and with blood [and if necessary] to kill every [white out] abolitionist in the district.”

• Several attacks, mobs, riots, etc.

• Kansas only became a state after the slave states seceded.