Missouri Compromise

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Missouri Compromise

• Road to the Civil War Project
• By Mr. Clegg

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Background Information

• Mason-Dixon Line - North and South
• 1793 Eli Whitney invents cotton gin
• 1803 Louisiana Purchase
• 1818 Missouri Territory requests statehood

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Mason-Dixon Line
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Cotton Engine
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Louisiana Purchase
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Causes

• In 1818, Missouri applies for statehood
• MO was part of the Louisiana Purchase
• Slavery was legal (10,000 slaves)
• The Senate is equally balanced
• (11 free and 11 slave states)
• Sectionalism divides regions

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The Senate

• 11 Free States
• 11 Slave States
• A balance

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Tallmadge Amendment

• James Tallmadge of New York introduced an
  amendment to prohibit slaves from entering the
  state after its admission.
• Southerners were afraid of
• losing money growing cotton.
• Northern power in the House
• the end of slavery (right of property)

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John C. Calhoun

• South Carolina Senator
• (THE SOUTH)

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Daniel Webster

• Senator of Massachusetts
• (THE
• NORTH)

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Henry Clay

• Senator of Kentucky
• (THE
• WEST)

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The Compromise

• Missouri as a slave state
• Maine as a free state
• 36 30 line separates free and slave territory of
  Louisiana Purchase

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Missouri Compromise Map
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The Effects

• Peace for 40 years
• Does NOT end slavery
• Sectionalism grows stronger

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Work Cited Page

• Foley, William E. "Missouri Compromise." World
  Book Student. World Book, 2009. Web. 5 Nov. 2009.