1. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was created to settle argument created when Missouri applied for statehood. a. Developed by Henry Clay of Kentucky. b. It kept the number of Free & Slave states even by adding the state of Maine as a free state & Missouri as a slave state. c. Established the Missouri Compromise Line of 36⁰ 30’. d. Sectionalism continued to grow & the US gained more land after the Mexican Cession in 1848. Henry Clay FREE STATES: Massachusett s Rhode Island Connecticut New York New Jersey Pennsylvania New Hampshire Vermont 1791 Ohio 1803 Indiana 1816 Illinois 1818 SLAVE STATES: Virginia Maryland N. Carolina S. Carolina Georgia Delaware Kentucky 1792 Tennessee 1796 Louisiana 1812 Mississippi 1817 Alabama 1819 Missouri Comp romise Rap
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1. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was created to settle argument created when Missouri applied for statehood. a. Developed by Henry Clay of Kentucky.
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1. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was created to settle argument created when Missouri applied for statehood.
a. Developed by Henry Clay of Kentucky.b. It kept the number of Free & Slave states even by adding the state of Maine as a free state &
Missouri as a slave state.c. Established the Missouri Compromise Line of 36⁰ 30’.d. Sectionalism continued to grow & the US
gained more land after the Mexican Cession in 1848.
3. The Compromise of 1850 was created to settle the argument created when California applied for statehood.
a. Henry Clay of Kentucky, Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, & Stephen Douglas of Illinois developed the plan.
b. The plan was developed to equal out the number of slave & free states in the US if California were admitted as a free state.c. The Plan:
1. Fugitive Slave Law was imposed.2. Texas becomes a slave state.3. California becomes a free state.4. Slave trade would be outlawed in Washington D.C.5. Popular Sovereignty would be imposed in the territories of Utah & New Mexico.
4. Sectionalism continued & became “Radical” because of the growing abolition movement, the growth of the railroad, and the development of new territories (like Nebraska & Kansas) which led to the creation of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
a. Developed by Stephen Douglas.b. Plan called for scraping the Missouri
Compromise Line & implementing Popular Sovereignty.