Transcript Missouri Compromise

Agenda:
Hand
in RAFT #2
Notes—Failed compromises
Same note sheet from
Friday.
RAFT #3
The Missouri Compromise, 1820
Missouri wanted to enter the union, but the
question of whether it would be a free state or
a slave state created a heated debate. This is
known as sectionalism, when two sections of a
country are divided because of their strong
feelings toward a particular issue; rather than
feeling loyalty to their country, people feel
loyalty to their section or region of their
country.
Main Points
Maine would be admitted as a free state.
 Missouri would be admitted as a slave
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state.
 Remaining territory of the Louisiana
Purchase (land north of the 36-30
parallel) would be closed off to slavery.
The Compromise of 1850
California desired
entrance into the
Union as a free
state, but this
would upset the
balance of the free
and slave states in
the Senate.
The Compromise of 1850
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California would be admitted as a free state.
Idea of popular sovereignty (the people
within a territory decide whether they will be
free or slave) would be applied to the rest of the
territory gained from the Mexican Cession
 Slave Trade would be outlawed in
Washington, D.C.
 Enacted a stricter fugitive slave law.
Define: northerners were forced to return
runaway slaves to their ‘owner’
The Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
The issue maintaining a balance of
free and slave states in the Union was
making it difficult for western territories
to be admitted into the union as
states. Stephen Douglas, a senator from
Illinois sought to resolve this issue with
the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
Idea of popular sovereignty would be
applied to the territories of Kansas and
Nebraska.
 Undid the Missouri Compromise by
allowing slavery to exist north of the 3630 parallel if a state’s population decided
(through popular sovereignty) to allow
slavery.
 Resulted in Bleeding Kansas.
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Lincoln Wins Presidency and
the South Secedes
After Lincoln became won the
presidential election in November
1860, the South began to secede from
the North
 The first state to secede was South
Carolina in December, 1860
 By Feb. 1861 Texas, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia
all had seceded
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Lincoln Wins Presidency and
the South Secedes
These states formed a new nation and
government and call themselves the
Confederate States of America
 Southerners were justified in seceding
because of
states’ rights
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States chose to join the United States of America
North refused to enforce the Fugitive Slave
Act
North refused to let the South have equal
access to the territories in the west
Fort Sumter , S.C.
April 1861
Fort Sumter
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Lincoln told the south that all Federal property
(government owned) in the South would still
belong to the Union (North – U.S.A.)
South surrounded Ft. Sumter and refused to let
the North restock supplies for the fort
Confederacy decided to attack the Fort before
Union troops arrived with supplies
33 hour fight ended with a Union surrender
News of the attack strengthened the North’s
dislike of the south and Lincoln ordered 75,000
soldiers to fight and save the Union
The Civil War had begun!!!
Causes of the Civil War
Missouri Compromise (1820)
 The Compromise of 1850
 Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
 The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
 Dred Scott Decision (1857)
 Election of 1860
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The Civil War begins
Fort Sumter