Maine becomes a FREE state
Missouri Compromise
1820
How did the South benefit?
Missouri becomes a SLAVE-HOLDING state
Final result – 36˚30N Latitude Line becomes
the dividing line between free and slave states in
the Louisiana Territory
Missouri Compromise
Who created it? Henry Clay
How did the North benefit?
How did the North benefit?
Nullification Crisis
1832
kept the tariff
How did the South benefit?
Tariff was greatly lowered
Define Tariff – tax on imports and/or
exports
Nullification Crisis
Who created it? Henry Clay
California was added as a free state
Slave trade was abolished in D.C.
How did the South benefit?

New Mexico became a slave-holding
territory
**  Strict Fugitive (runaway) slave law **
Who created it? Stephen Douglas
How did the North benefit?
NO BENEFIT
How did the South benefit?
Popular Sovereignty decided if Kansas and
Nebraska will allow slavery
Final result – Nullified (did away with) the
Missouri Compromise Line
Dred Scott Decision
1857
Who created it? Supreme Court
How did the North benefit?
NO BENEFIT
How did the South benefit?


** 
Abraham Lincoln’s
Election
1860
Dred Scott is still a slave
Slaves are property and not citizens
Allowed slavery in ALL
**
states/territories (no such things as a
“free state.”
How did the North benefit?


Lincoln is Republican
Lincoln is anti-slavery
How did the South benefit?

South begins to secede
Election


Dred Scott vs. Sandford Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska
Act
1854
How did the North benefit?
Abraham Lincoln’s
Compromise of 1850
ROAD TO THE CIVIL WAR
Compromiser)
Compromise of 1850
Who created it? Henry Clay (Great