1. Why do today, what can be put off till tomorrow…

2.  The US was divided into three different sections, with three different interests.  The North: Daniel Webster  Businesses and manufacturing  Wanted tariffs, increasingly nationalistic, and against slavery  The South: John C. Calhoun  Cotton Farming  Opposed tariffs, increasingly supportive of states rights, pro-slavery  The West: Henry Clay  Frontier agriculture  Wanted cheap land, loyalty to the government, wanted their own say in slavery issue

3.  Southern states were concerned with the possibility for the federal government to abolish slavery.  Threatened to secede if representation became skewed against them.  After all, they joined the Union voluntarily…  And believed they could leave it at will…

4.  “The Great Pacifier”  Brokered multiple compromises:  The Missouri Compromise of 1820  The Compromise of 1850

5.  AKA: “The Missouri Compromise”  Missouri wanted to enter the Union in 1819 but threatened to throw off the balance between free and slave states.

6.  Henry Clay convinced Congress to agree to three terms in the compromise:  1. Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state.  2. Maine would join the Union as a free state.  3. Slavery would be prohibited in any new territories created north of 36*30’ latitude (Missouri’s southern border).