The document discusses several compromises around the issue of slavery in the early United States. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state while Maine entered as free, dividing states between free and slave above and below the 36°30' parallel. The Compromise of 1850 included admitting California as a free state, organizing New Mexico and Utah under popular sovereignty, and passing a strict Fugitive Slave Law. The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, opening Kansas and Nebraska to popular sovereignty on slavery.

2.  This agreement with France enabled America
to almost double in size
 Included the land that eventually became
Missouri

3.  In 1819, Missouri had a high enough
population to justify statehood
 Attempted to join as a slave state
 The House of Representatives prevents this
attempt with the Tallmadge amendment
 This prohibited further slaves from entering
Missouri
 It also called for the emancipation of children
born to slaves there

4.  Slaveholding
southerners, pioneers,
and northern Federalists
were especially mad
 Free states were gaining
more and more power -
they already had a
majority in the House of
Representatives – so the
odds had to be evened
for the slave states

5.  Henry Clay of Kentucky stepped in and came
up with a bundle of three compromises to
permit Missouri as a slave state
 1. Missouri would enter as a slave state
 2. Maine would break from Massachusetts
and enter as a free state
 3. Slavery was
henceforth outlawed
north of Missouri’s
southern boundary
(36°, 30’)

7.  Compromise of 1850 –
 1. California was admitted as a free state
 2. New Mexico and Utah were opened to
popular sovereignty
 3. Introduction of a strict Fugitive Slave Law

8.  Kansas-Nebraska Act –
 Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois wanted to split
the Territory of Nebraska
 Missouri Compromise was totally thrown out
when Kansas became a slave state

9.  The American Pageant - Information
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