Missouri Compromise
Admitted to the Union as a Slave State
Missouri
Entered as a free state
California
Responsible for helping return slaves to their owners
Everyone
Type of governing the act opened up the Kansas and Nebraska territories to
popular sovereignty.
Candidate that received the most Popular Votes
Abraham Lincoln
Admitted as a Free state
Maine
The two territories given Popular sovereignty
Utah and New Mexico
Strengthened as part of this compromise
Compromise of 1850
Overruled this Compromise
Missouri Compromise
first state to seceded from the United States after election
South Carolina
36* Parallel
Dividing line that indicated free and potential slave territories
Slave States saw this as a positive impact
Popular sovereignty
What happened to you if you helped a slave escape
Arrested
Northern states negative belief of what Popular Sovereignty would lead to
Slavery
Secession
withdrawal of a group from a larger entity, especially a political entity,
12
Number of Slave states after compromise
Law strengthened
Fugitive Slave Act
Helped their economy
Sothern slave owners
Southern states positive belief of what Popular Sovereignty would lead to
Slavery
Northern States
States that Lincoln received the majority of his Electoral College votes from
Number of Free states after the compromise
12
Northern States
Had political advantage after compromise
This groups fight to free slaves became harder
Abolitionists
Name for physical conflicts in the area
Bleeding Kansas
Lincolns policy on slavery
One of the three:
1. not interfere with slavery in the South, and
2. He would support enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act.
3. Not allow slavery extend into the new territories