Crisis of Disunion and the Missouri Compromise of 1820 By J. A. SACCO

Preview- The Causes of the Civil War Starter- What were the causes of the American Civil War? Manifest Destiny-expansion-determine slavery Cultural differences between the North and South Poor leadership in gov’t- don’t want to deal with the problem Inability/Failure of compromise Breakup of national parties into sectional parties Reform movement- steady growth of abolitionist movement

Missouri Compromise of 1820 First crisis of many- Missouri applies for statehood in 1819. Talmadge Amendment NY Congressman James Talmadge proposes two amendments to the Missouri statehood bill Bar additional slaves from being brought into Missouri- already have 16% of population Emancipate Missouri slaves born after admission when slave reaches 25th birthday * So if Missouri to become a state, it must agree to eventually become a free state

Missouri Compromise of 1820 Why did the statehood bill of Missouri become a sectional crisis between the North and South? 1819 North Control the House of Reps. because of a larger population in North If more Southern states are added, may loose control of House as they did in the early years of the republic. South Control Senate with Illinois often voting as a Southern state Must keep it at least even in Senate The Talmadge Amendment passes the House but gets shot down in the Senate!

Henry Clay averted a crisis with the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Maine and Missouri became states at that time—one free, the other slave. A line was drawn across the territories; any new state south of Missouri’s southern border would be a slave state, anything north a free state. Henry Clay averted a crisis with the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Still, Southerners were worried. They blamed the Missouri debates when Denmark Vesey, a black freedman, planned an unsuccessful slave revolt in 1822.