Transcript Government & The State

Differences Between the
North and South
Missouri Compromise (1820)
1819 – the U.S. had 11 free & 11 slave states
 Balance in the Senate
Expansion into Louisiana Purchase
 Missouri Territory requested admission as slave
state
Solution
 Missouri admitted – slave
 Maine admitted as separate state – free
 No slavery above southern border of MO in
future (36°30’ Line)
Prelude to Civil War?
“But this momentous question, like a firebell in the night,
awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at
once as the knell [funeral bell] of the Union. It is hushed,
indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a
final sentence.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“I regret that I am now to die in the belief that the
useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776,
to acquire self-government and happiness to their
country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and
unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only
consolation is to be that I live not to weep over it.”
-also T.J.
Compromise of 1850
Again – debate over expansion
 California – Gold Rush!
Henry Clay (KY) proposed 8 resolutions
 CA – free state/Rest of Mexican cession could
be slave
 Settled border dispute w/Texas & New Mexico
 Outlawed slave trade, but not slavery, in DC
 Congress: hands off internal slave
trade/Fugitive Slave Act
Compromise ended talk of secession
The Constitution and the Union
“I wish to speak to-day, not as a Massachusetts
man, nor as a Northern man, but as an
American…I speak to-day for the preservation of
the Union. Hear me for my cause…There can be no
such thing as a peaceable secession. Peaceable
secession is an utter impossibility…I see as plainly
as I see the sun in heaven what that disruption
itself must produce; I see that it must produce
war, and such a war as I will not describe…”
-Daniel Webster (MA)
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Question over expansion into Nebraska Territory
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Question over expansion into Nebraska Territory
 South wanted Missouri Comp. repealed
Stephen Douglas (IL) proposed two states in territory
 Kansas & Nebraska
Popular Sovereignty
 Voters would decide slavery issue in these new states
 "The great principle of self government is at stake,
and surely the people of this country are never going
to decide that the principle upon which our whole
republican system rests is vicious and wrong.“
-Stephen Douglas
Bleeding Kansas
Brooks attacking Sumner
Richmond Enquirer: Sumner should be caned
"every morning", praising the attack as "good in
conception, better in execution, and best of all in
consequences“
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Question over expansion into Nebraska Territory
 South wanted Missouri Comp. repealed
Stephen Douglas (IL) proposed two states in territory
 Kansas & Nebraska
Popular Sovereignty
 Voters would decide slavery issue in these new states
After Effects:
 Republican Party formed
 Kansas-Nebraska set US on road to war