Missouri wants to join Union as a slave state

Congress makes compromise

Missouri could join if Maine could join as a free State

What did the Mexican American war do to the Missouri compromise?

How did this affect Slavery in Congress

Destroyed it

Congress was now talking about slavery

Claim to Territories aquired in the Mexico war surrendered

New territories can decided whether they want slavery

Land not good for plantation, not interested in slavery

Slave trade banned in Columbia

Henry Clay

Helped w/ 1820 Missouri Comp

Helped W/ Comp of 1850

Popular Sovreignty

Balanced Senate

People Choose

2 Senators per state--> 1 for slavery and one against

Senators are reps for the ppl

Part of 1850 Comp

Camptured slaves will be returned to their owners

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Abolitionist

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

Novel depicted harsh life of African American slaves

Group of African Americans and White abolitionists have a brawl w/ Maryland posse

Maryland posse trying to capture fugitive slaves

One landowner in the posse killed and 2 wounded

Kansas-Nebraska act 1854

What did it do to the Missouri Comp?

Allowed ppl in Kansas and Nebraska to decide if they wanted slavery in their borders

Repealed Missouri Comp

Missouri Comp=no slavery in Northern territories

Kansas Crisis

(Bleeding Kansas)

Ppl flooded into Kansas 

Voting whether Kansas would join union as free or slave state

Violent conflicts

Brooks attacked Sumner in Congress with a cane

Breakdown of reasoned discourse

Breakdown eventually led to civil war

African Americans can't be American Citizens

Indirect catalyst to Civil War

Secession of the South is illegal

Going to war to stop it is illegal

7 debates between Lincoln and Stephen Douglas

On Slavery

Biggest ones were Freeport, Quincy and Alton