2. Missouri Compromise 1820
Missouri applied for admission as a slave state
Maine requested statehood as free state
Compromise
36 Parallel
States north of it—free (slavery not allowed)
States south of it—slavery was allowed
Maintained a perfect balance of free state and slave states.

3. 30 years later… Compromise of 1850
California added to the union as a free state
Utah and New Mexico could decide if they would allow slavery (popular sovereignty- people choose/vote on slavery or no slavery in state)
New law- to help slave owners recapture slaves called “Fugitive Slave Law”

4. North Gets South Gets California admitted as a free state
No slavery restrictions in Utah or New Mexico territories
Slave trade prohibited in Washington D.C.
Slaveholding permitted in Washington D.C.
Texas loses boundary dispute with New Mexico
Texas gets $10 million
Fugitive Slave Law

5. Compromise of 1850
Benefitted: WESTERN states were happy they could vote on their own issues.
Upset: SOUTH – there is no longer a balance of slave states and free states.
Upset: NORTH – Because of the Fugitive Slave Act, they have to return freed slaves to the south.

6. MAP ACTIVITY
CREATE THE 36 PARALLEL LINE AND LABEL IT MISSOURI COMPROMISE
ON POST IT: EXPLAIN THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE
CIRCLE the TERRITORY PART OF COMPROMSIE OF 1850
ON POST IT WRITE THE STATES THAT WERE FREE STATES AND ONES THAT WERE OPEN TO POPULAR SOVERIGNTY