Missouri Compromise

State where slavery is legal (a)  

• Slave state
• Free state
• 36N 30'
• Nationalism

State where slavery is illegal

• Slave state

• Free state

• 36N 30'

• Nationalism

Pride in your country

• Slave state

• Free state

• 36N 30'

• Nationalism

Pride in your region

• Sectionalism

• Nationalism

• Free state

• Slave state

36 degrees North line said

• Any new state north of this line could vote on slavery

• Any new state south of this line was a free state

• Any new state north of this line was a free state

• Any new state south of this line could vote on slavery

The economy that was based around manufacturing

• North

• South

Choose what made up the southern colonies' economy

• Slavery

• Cotton

• Factories

• Plantations

Have the Senate balanced with the same number of free and slave states was important because

• If there was an equal number nobody could gain an advantage in the House of Representatives.

• No side could gain a majority and make decisions about slavery

• It was not important to have since the President couldn't veto laws

• Economies couldn't change without a vote in the Senate.

The Missouri Compromise made the free states happy by

• adding Maine as a slave state

• adding Maine as a free state

• adding Missouri as a slave state

• adding Missouri as a free state.

The Missouri Compromise made the slave states happy by

• adding Maine as a slave state

• adding Maine as a free state

• adding Missouri as a slave state

• adding Missouri as a free state.