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Compromises Notes

The document summarizes three key events that led to increased tensions over the expansion of slavery in the United States: 1) The Missouri Compromise of 1820 temporarily resolved the issue by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while banning slavery in new states north of the 36°30' line. 2) The Compromise of 1850 banned the slave trade in Washington D.C. and permitted slavery in Utah and New Mexico territories to maintain the balance of power, though it intensified tensions through its Fugitive Slave Act. 3) The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 repealed the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers in those territories to vote on slavery

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Compromises Notes

The document summarizes three key events that led to increased tensions over the expansion of slavery in the United States: 1) The Missouri Compromise of 1820 temporarily resolved the issue by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while banning slavery in new states north of the 36°30' line. 2) The Compromise of 1850 banned the slave trade in Washington D.C. and permitted slavery in Utah and New Mexico territories to maintain the balance of power, though it intensified tensions through its Fugitive Slave Act. 3) The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 repealed the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers in those territories to vote on slavery

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Compromises and Expansion

How did the expansion of slavery lead to increased tensions in the United States?

Missouri Compromise of 1820


Cause Effect

Louisiana Purchase: Doubled the size of the United 1. Missouri would be admitted into the Union as a
States slave state

Cotton trade: Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin, “King 2. Maine would be admitted as a free state (maintain
Cotton”, ^ demand for slaves & plantation system balance)

Manifest Destiny: Westward Expansion! (Continental 3. Slavery is banned from all new states north of the
United States stretches from Atlantic → Pacific) 36°30’ Line in the Louisiana Purchase

Balance in Congress: Trying to maintain an equal Temporarily resolved the issue of whether of not slavery
number of slave and free states could be extended to new states & territories

Maine & Missouri Statehood: both want to join the


union-- will they be free or slave?

Compromise of 1850
Cause Effect

Mexican-American War: Gained Mexican Cession, Texas Sound gained the fugitive slave acts
North gained california as a free state
Wilmot Proviso: Failed attempt to ban slavery Texas lost territory to new mexico but was
Compensated $10mil.to pay for its debt
California Statehood: Will California be free or slave?
Slave trade was prohiibited in washington d.c
Fugitive Slave Act: Free states required to return
runaway slaves*
Slavery was permitted in uthan and n mexico
Compromise of 1820: Maintained balance of slavery-- (territories)
36°30 line

Manifest Destiny & Westward Expansion: Wish to


populate the west

Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)


Cause Effect

Manifest Destiny: Westward Expansion Allowed people of the kansas and nebraska territories
To vote on wheter or not to allow slavery in their territories.
Kansas & Nebraska Statehood: Will they be free or
slave?

Popular Sovereignty:The people vote regarding slavery-- Repelaled the 1820 compromise anti slavery and
majority rules Pro slavery activists moved into the state to affect
The outcome of the first election on slavery.
Transcontinental Railroad: Movement westward, increased
industry & plantations

Compromise of 1820: Maintained balance post Louisiana


Purchase
Pro slavery won anti slavery seltters charged them
With fraud.
Compromise of 1850: Maintained balance post
Mexican-American War

Balance in Congress: Don’t want to pass any slavery laws

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