Missouri Compromise

Timeline

• Tension between slave & free states
• 1819- Missouri's 2nd attempt at being submitted to the Union
• Caused an uprise between slave & free states
• Missouri admitted as 24th state
• Maine is admitted as a free state

Timeline

• Jesse Thomas amended Missouri Compromise Line
• 1854 - Repealed by Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Declared unconstitutional by Dred Scott case of 1857

Missouri Compromise

• Territories south of the Ohio R. and Mason Dixon Line
• Missouri was north of it, and had lots of slaveholders
• Tension because offset balance of power in Congress

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Missouri Compromise

• Congress's two-part compromise
• Senator Thomas's amendment

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Allowed white males to determine policies
• Purpose: To open up thousands of farms and land
• Become a problem
• Both pro and anti states fled into Kansas
• Led to Civil War

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