1. Missouri Compromise How does conflict lead to change within societies?
How does conflict between the North and South change?
How does location affect society’s economy, culture, and development?
Why did the beliefs of states’ rights cause conflict between the North and South?

2. In 1819 the United States was divided equally with 11 free states and 11 slave states. Thus, making the Senate balanced with senators who favor and oppose slavery. Until, Missouri asked for statehood and to be admitted as a slave state.

3. Henry Clay urged a solution called the Missouri Compromise
Henry Clay urged a solution called the Missouri Compromise. This allowed Missouri to enter the United States as a slave state, and added Maine as a free state. This would allow the Senate to remain balanced.

4. What would happen to new states who sought state hood
What would happen to new states who sought state hood? According to the Missouri Compromise, any state north of the southern border of Missouri would be a free state and any state south would be a slave state.

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7. Millard Fillmore
Zachary Taylor

8. Zachary Taylor Why did both parties want Taylor as their president
Zachary Taylor Why did both parties want Taylor as their president? Why did Taylor appeal to the Northern and Southern voters? What was the Compromise of 1850? How did Taylor deal with the secessionist?

9. Millard Fillmore What did Fillmore do that was different than Taylor
Millard Fillmore What did Fillmore do that was different than Taylor? Why did Fillmore support slavery? What did Fillmore believe protected slavery? Who did Fillmore blame? Why?

10. Some believed that states rights were more important then federal law
Some believed that states rights were more important then federal law. John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson’s Vice President, believed that states had the right not to follow a federal law if they did not agree with it.

11. Comprise of Also created by Henry Clay allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and the new states of Utah and New Mexico to decide for themselves whether they would be free states or slave states. The comprise was the allowance of the Fugitive Slave Law.

12. The Northern states opposed this, but the Southern states favored it
The Northern states opposed this, but the Southern states favored it. John C. Calhoun believed in States Rights and thought slavery should be legal if the state’s citizens wanted slavery.

13. States’ Rights – the idea that states have the right to make decisions about issues that concern them and not have the country tell them what to do.

14. Fugitive Slave Law – escaped slaves had to be returned to their owners, even if they had reached Northern states where slavery was not allowed.