The CompromisesUnit 1
Pre-Civil War
The Missouri Compromise(aka The Compromise of 1820)
• Keeps the balance between free states and slave states
• 36 30’ line– No slavery above (except Missouri)
• Maine– Free state
• Missouri– Slave state
The Compromise of 1850
• California enters as a free state (Gold Rush 49)• Henry Clay “The Great Compromiser”• Outlaws slavery in Washington D.C.• Fugitive slave act of 1850
Kansas Nebraska Act 1854
• “Bleeding Kansas” violence• People from Missouri go to Kansas to vote
pro-slavery• Lawrence, Kansas attacked by pro-slavery
group• John Brown, the abolitionist
Preston Brooks v Charles Sumner