1820: Missouri Compromise
By: Nick Wastchak
James Monroe
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Was serving as president during the
time.
He also was the one to pass the
Missouri Compromise act.
The free and slave states
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11 free states
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11 slave states
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Missouri wanted to be a slave state
The problem?
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Since Missouri wanted to become a
slave state, the government would
become unbalanced between the
free and slave states.
There would be more control to the
slave states.
Who was involved?
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The U.S Congress
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The House of Representatives
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The Senate
The U.S Congress
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The U.S was involved with the
regulation of slavery in the western
territories.
They prohibited slavery in the
Louisiana Territory
The House of Representatives
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The House decided to refuse the
compromise, and decided to appoint
a conference committee.
Protected the free states.
The U.S Senate
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The Senate decided to refuse the
conference committee and the
whole measure was lost.
The pro-slave constitution
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In St. Louis, Missouri a convention
passes a pro-slave constitution.
Maine= free state
Maine
Missouri= slave state
After they passed these states
Missouri was committed to the
Union.
Missouri
The balance
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Since Missouri was a slave state and
Maine became a free state.
It equaled out the balance with free
and slave states.
Which now had 12 free and 12 slave
states.
SLAVE
FREE
The conditions
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Since Missouri became a slave state
they set a new rule for the slave
states.
That once a slave hits the age 25
they could be set free.
States above the Missouri
Compromise line banned slavery.
1854: Kansas Nebraska Act
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Repealed the Missouri Compromise in
1854.
They said that people in the nonslave territories could determine if
they wanted to be a slave or free
state.
Stephen A. Douglas designed this
act.