1. The Compromises Before the War

2. Objectives -Describe the advantages and disadvantages of the Missouri Compromise, the Wilmot Proviso, and the Compromise of 1850 -Analyze the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and judge its effectiveness

3. Different Views on Slavery Slaveholders -wanted to allow slavery in all territories Abolitionists -were against all of the compromises for slavery Moderates -in favor of compromises and votes

4. Missouri Compromise 1819 - 11 free and 11 slave states Compromise was reached to admit Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state Slavery was allowed below the 36° 30’N latitude line

5. Missouri Compromise

6. Wilmot Proviso Provision of the law that called for all land, won from Mexico, to be free of slavery This helped divide the country even further

7. Free Soil Party “Free soil, free speech, free labor, and free men.” Wanted to keep slavery out of the new territories 1848 – The first presidential election that made slavery an issue

8. California Gold found in 1849 15 free 15 slave states Henry Clay (KY) proposed the Compromise of 1850

9. Compromise of 1850 – 5 Parts California to enter union as free state Mexican land becomes Utah and NM Popular sovereignty to decide slavery Slave trade ended in D.C. Created a strict fugitive slave law Settled border between Texas & NM