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The Missouri
Compromise of 1820
The Problem
In 1818, the territory of Missouri applied to the
U.S.A. for statehood, Missouri had some slaves.
The question of whether slavery would be
permitted in the new state became an issue in
the U.S. Congress and across the United States.
…….At the time, there
were 11 slave states
and 11 free states
Missouri Compromise of 1820
The Debate…
The House of Representatives, which
had more northerners…
…voted for Missouri to become a
state without slavery (a free state).
The Debate…
The Senate, which had 22 Senators from
free states and 22 senators from slave
states…
…voted to a tie.
The Potential Result
Therefore, the bill to make Missouri a free state
did not pass. Had the bill passed, the free state
delegates would have outnumbered the slave
state delegates in the House of Representatives
and the Senate. If that had happened…
…the slave states would not have been able to stop
the free states from passing laws against slavery.
The Compromise……In 1820….
Maine enters the U.S.A. as a free state
and
Missouri enters the U.S.A. as a slave state
Missouri Compromise of 1820
The Future…
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 pacified
both the free states and the slave states
for 30 years until 1850 and the admission
of California as a state….
…The Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise of 1820
The Compromise of 1850

One bill in Congress that was proposed
would make California a free state.

The slave states would not agree to
this.

Another bill in Congress that was
proposed would make the Fugitive Slave
Law tougher and require the people in the
free states to aid in the capture of
runaway slaves.

The free states would not agree to
this.
The Compromise…
In a speech to
the United
States Senate,
Henry Clay
outlines the
principal
features of
what would
become the
Compromise
of 1850.
The Free States got…

California admitted as a free state

a ban on slave trade in Washington D.C.
The Slaves States got…

A tougher Fugitive Slave Law (tougher
than the one in 1793)

popular sovereignty (The right of the
people who live in a territory to decide
upon an issue) on slavery in the territories
of New Mexico and Utah
The United States Map after the
Compromise of 1850
The effects of the Compromise of
1850

the free states would now have a majority
in the Senate because they would have 2
more seats than the slave states after
California was made a free state by this
compromise.

The free states already held a majority in
the House of Representatives.