Contextualization
Southern leaders defended this institution, calling it a "necessary evil".
What is slavery?
Counted slaves for representation purposes.
What is the 3/5ths compromise?
Compromise admitting Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The Southerners relied on this for agricultural profit.
What is cotton?
Crisis from Missouri joining as a slave state.
What is the Missouri Crisis?
Founded American Colonization society and argued that slaves should be resettled elsewhere (not in the US).
Who is Henry Clay?
This is the upper chamber of Congress which created laws.
What is the Senate?
This amendment proposed gradual emancipation and banned new slave imports.
What is the Tallmadge Amendement?
This state joined the Union as a slave state and broke the balance in the Senate.
What is Missouri?
This resolution forbade congress to interfere with emancipation of slavery in the states.
What is the James Madison resolution?
The motive for forming the Methodist Episcopal Church.
What is the American Colonization Society?
This state helped restore the balance in Senate between slave/free states.
What is Maine?