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The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was a pivotal moment in America's first significant debate over slavery, arising when Missouri sought admission as a slave state. It led to a proposal by Henry Clay to admit Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and prohibit slavery north of the 36°30' parallel. The compromise highlighted the growing tensions between slave and free states during the antebellum period, with implications for national unity and debates surrounding slavery.
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- 4. Photo by LibidoLounge “New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union…” U.S. Constitution (Art. 4) The Pledging Process
- 5. Missouri applies for admission intothe Union as a SLAVE STATE. Icon by Ted Grajeda The Noun Project 1819
- 6. Tallmadge Amendment "And provided,That the further introduction of slavery or involuntary servitude be prohibited… and that all children born within the said State, after the admission thereof into the Union, shall be free at the age of twenty-five years." Rep. James Tallmadge (R- NY) 1819
- 7. Tallmadge Amendment Missouri canbe admitted to the Union upon accepting GRADUAL EMANCIPATION Rep. James Tallmadge (R- NY) 1819
- 8. PARITY Slave States FreeStates Delaware Georgia Maryland South Carolina Virginia North Carolina Kentucky Tennessee Louisiana Mississippi New Jersey Pennsylvania Connecticut Massachusetts New Hampshire New York Rhode Island Vermont Ohio Indiana Illinois Balance Between Slave and Free States
- 9. PARITY Balance BetweenSlave and Free States 1820 - 1850
- 10. TRAJECTORY NASA Goddard SpaceFlight Center
- 12. Some rights reservedby National Museum of American History Northwest Ordinance in Northwest Territories
- 13. Alabama admitted as a SLAVESTATE without fanfare. Icon by Ted Grajeda The Noun Project 1819 Photo by James Willamor
- 15. PARITY Slave States FreeStates Delaware Georgia Maryland South Carolina Virginia North Carolina Kentucky Tennessee Louisiana Mississippi Alabama New Jersey Pennsylvania Connecticut Massachusetts New Hampshire New York Rhode Island Vermont Ohio Indiana Illinois Balance Between Slave and Free States
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- 21. Clay’s proposal: Admit Missourias a Slave State. Admit Maine as a Free State. Prohibit slavery in the territories of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36˚30’ parallel.
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- 28. THE SAGE of Monticello ThomasJefferson to John Holmes 22 April 1820
- 29. “This momentous question, likea fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror…”
- 30. “I considered it atonce as the knell of the Union.”
- 31. Photo by VladimerShioshvili n. the sound of a bell, especially when rung solemnly for a death or funeral.
- 32. “It is hushedindeed for the moment. but this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. a geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper.”
- 33. I can saywith conscious truth that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would, to relieve us from this heavy reproach, in any practicable way. Johnson Eastman, The Lord is My Shepherd (1863)
- 34. Johnson Eastman, TheLord is My Shepherd (1863) A general emancipation and expatriation could be effected: and, gradually, and with due sacrifices, I think it might be.
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- 37. “I regret thatI am now to die in the belief that the useless sacrifice of themselves, by the generation of ‘76. to acquire self government and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons…”
- 38. “My only consolationis to be that I live not to weep over it. if they would but dispassionately weigh the blessings they will throw away against an abstract principle more likely to be effected by union than by scission, they would pause before they would perpetrate this act of suicide on themselves and of treason against the hopes of the world.”
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- 40. A South CarolinaPerspective… During the debate, Charles Pinckney (SC) defended slavery as a positive good. Pinckney’s opinions did not hold much water outside of South Carolina at the time, but as Northerners continued to criticize slavery, more Southerners began to defend the institution. Pinckney’s Speech Pinckney
- 41. LET’S REVIEW: Admit Missourias a Slave State. Admit Maine as a Free State. Prohibit slavery in the territories of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36˚30’ parallel.