The Mussouri Compromise
What year was the Missouri Compromise?
1820
What did the southerners think about the Tallmadge Amendment?
After the Missouri Compromise, what state was a free slave state?
Why was it important to Southerners to keep an equal number of senators from free states and slave states in Congress?
What was the Missouri compromise?
Agreed to a compromise admitted Missouri to the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
By 1819, settlers had formed how many new states west of the Appalachians.
Lincoln won the presidential election with what percent of the votes?
In the North, congressmen who voted to accept Missouri as a slave state were called what?
traitor
In the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, Congress had established a process for forming new states, this banned slavery where?
What were four details of Henry Clay’s plan to end the deadlock over the issue of California statehood?
1. By admitting California to the Union as a free state.
2. New Mexico and Utah would be organized as territories open to slavery.
3. Ended the slave trade in Washington D.C.
4. Called for a passage of strong fugative slave law was created.
As a slave, was Dred Scott a citizen who had the right to bring a case before a fedral court?
No. Scott could not sue for his freedom in a fedral court because he was not a citizen. No african American, free or slave could ever become an American citizen.
He would not interfere with slavery in the South, and he would support what act?
Fugitive Slave Act.
What were the three decisions in the Missouri Compromise?
1. Admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
2. Congress drew an imaginary line across the Louisiania Territory at latitude 36, 30.
3. North of this line, slavery was banned except in Missouri and south was slaveholding permitted.
What did the Tallmadge Amendment stir up in the north?
Why did Northerns in Congress accept Californias application for statehood while southerns rejected it?
Because California would be a free state. The power between North and South would be unbalenced.
As a slave, was Dred Scott a citizen who had the right to bring a case before a fedral court?
No. Scott could not sue for his freedom in a fedral court because he was not a citizen. No african American, free or slave could ever become an American citizen.