1. Homework out on desk!!!
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2. Heads Up Vocab Review!!

3. The Missouri Compromise (1820)
Effect
Short Term:
Create temporary balance between slave & non-slave states
36 30 line was obeyed till Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854
Long Term:
War was caused because of the never ending battle over slavery
Cause
Result
Missouri wants to come in as a slave state (1819)
Anti-Slavery: allowing this would ruin the balance between slave & non-slave states
Pro-Slavery: Believed North had no right to interfere with their way of life
Missouri is slave, Maine is non-slave
Slavery is forbidden North of the latitude mark
People in North were encouraged to return runaway slave

5. Effect
Henry Clay creates compromise
Cali. enters as a free state
New territories of New Mexico & Utah left the decision to its citizens (popular sovereignty)
Prohibits slave trade in Washington D.C.
Empowers the Fugitive Slave Act
Compromise of 1850
Cause
Slave v. Non-slave debate over new territory gained after the Mexican War
California adopted anti- slavery constitution

7. Fugitive Slave Act
Allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States

8. Kansas Nebraska Act Effect Result Cause
Whig Party splits (one of two major parties at the time)
Northern Whigs voted against bill. Southern Whigs voted for.
Most Southern Whigs were swept into Democratic Party
Northern Whigs became Republican (the party of Lincoln)
Result
Sen. Stephen Douglas (Illinois) wants to see Nebraska made into territory
Proposes Kansas as a Southern state to balance Nebraska as non- slave
Kansas is above latitude, but bill is passed in 1854 allowing popular sovereignty above the mark
Cause
Settlers want to move into Nebraska but won’t till it’s organized as a territory so they can legally claim land
Southern reps. in no hurry to admit Nebraska (lays above the latitude line)

10. Journal Entry Characters
Slave (living in the South)
Escaped slave (living in the North)
Slave Owner
White Northerner
Free black Northerner
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