1. Growing Sectionalism Essential Questions: Do Now: Homework:
What was the goal of the Missouri Compromise?
What did the presidential elections of 1824 and 1828 indicate about the United States?
Do Now:
Read the Missouri Compromise Handout
Geography Connection # 1 and 2 pg. 156
Homework:
Unit 2 Test Monday 11/23

2. Missouri Compromise
Missouri’s application for admission to the Union as a slave state would upset the balance of the power in the Senate if approved as the Union consisted of 11 free and 11 slave states.
Maine, part of Massachusetts, requested admission to the Union as a separate state.
The Senate voted to admit Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state in what became known as the Missouri Compromise.
The Missouri Compromise also prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Purchase territory north of Missouri’s southern border.

3. Elections of 1824 and 1828
Four candidates ran for president in 1824, all were Republicans who enjoyed the support of leaders from their own state and region.
Jackson won the most popular votes but no candidate won a majority in the Electoral College forcing the election to the House of Representatives where Henry Clay swayed support to John Quincy Adams.
Adams appointed Henry Clay as secretary of state causing a split in the party.
The election of 1828 pitted John Quincy Adams against Andrew Jackson, who won the presidency after a contentious campaign by both candidates.