The Struggle Over Slavery Lesson 3

Missouri Compromise To keep the states balanced, Missouri came into the Union as a slave state and Maine came in to the Unionas a free state Henry Clay – known as “The Great Compromiser” proposed this compromise.

Compromise of 1850 Henry Clay proposed : California come into the Union as a free state Pass the Fugitive Slave Law Slavery could be allowed in the territories gained from Mexico

Kansas – Nebraska Act Stephen Douglas proposed: Let the people decide in this territory whether it should be free or slave

Stephen Douglass Each state…. has a right to do as it pleases on… slavery

Abraham Lincoln If slavery is not wrong, then nothing is wrong…[But I} would not do anything to bring about a war between the free and slave states.”