1. Compromise Notes

2. The Missouri Compromise

3. The Controversy
Missouri was a slave territory and it would throw off the balance between the slave states and free states in the Senate.

4. The Compromise Proposed by Henry Clay
Maine would also enter the Union as a free state.
Missouri would enter as a slave state.
Balance would be kept in the Senate.
Slavery would be prohibited (banned) north of the ’ line, for any other territory. (Dealt with the issue of slavery in the old Louisiana Territory)

5. The Compromise of 1850

6. The Controversy
California wanted to enter the Union as a free state, throwing off the balance of power.

7. The Compromise Proposed by Henry Clay (The Great Compromiser)
California would enter as a free state. Organized New Mexico and Utah as territories with popular sovereignty
Paid Texas for giving up part of New Mexico
Ended the slave trade, but not slavery in the District of Columbia
Passage of strict federal law enforcing the return of fugitive slaves.

8. The Kansas-Nebraska Act

9. The Controversy
Northern leaders wanted to run the transcontinental railroad through northern states

10. The Act Proposed by Stephen Douglas
Set up Territorial governments in the Nebraska Territory
Proposed dividing the region into two territories: Nebraska and Kansas
Each territory would decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty

11. Southern leaders supported the idea: believing slavery in Missouri would spread into Kansas
Northerners became outraged…Popular Sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska cancelled the Missouri Compromise.
Opened the possibility of new slave states in the west… where slavery had been banned for 34 years