The Missouri Compromise of 1820 aimed to balance the number of free and slave states admitted to the union by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, and designating the Louisiana Territory north of Missouri's southern border as free territory. The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a free state, banned the slave trade in Washington D.C., and allowed popular sovereignty to determine slavery in other territories, while also strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act. The Kansas-Nebraska Act proposed creating Kansas and Nebraska territories and allowing popular sovereignty to determine their slave or free status, upsetting the North but pleasing the South.

2. THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE (1820)
• In 1819 there were 11 free states and 11 slave states
• But MO territory wanted admission as a slave state
• What issue would this cause?

3. • 1820 Senator Henry Clay creates a bill
that would do the following:
1. Maine would enter as a free state
2. Missouri would enter as a slave state
3. In the Louisiana Territory, any land north
of the southern border of Missouri would
be free.
4. Slave owners had the right to pursue
escaped fugitives into free territory.

5. COMPROMISE OF 1850
1. California admitted as a free state.
2. Slave trade banned in D.C.
3. Popular sovereignty to determine slavery
question in Mexican Cession
4. Tough new Fugitive slave law
Which provisions do you think the North and South
were happy about?

7. KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT (1854)
• Senator Stephen Douglas wanted to develop
lands to connect Illinois and the west coast with
a railroad.
• Suggested creating 2 new territories: Kansas
and Nebraska
• Why would the South not be happy about this?
• Douglas then proposed popular sovereignty in
those territories
• South ends up happy with the bill while the
North is not as happy.