Bleeding Kansas and Missouri Compromise

What is a compromise?

• an agreement

• a settlement of a dispute

• each side making concessions (giving up something).

• all of the above

From day #1, the USA has unsuccessfully compromsied on what hot topic?

• slavery

• the role of the president

• footwear

• the economy

The struggle between the federal government and individual states over political power.

• Conflict over states rights

• Conflict over Fugitive Slave Law

• Missouri Compromise 1820

• 1850 Compromise

This created immense controversy between northerners and southerners

• Conflict over states rights

• Conflict over Fugitive Slave Law

• Missouri Compromise 1820

• 1850 Compromise

This was the adding of Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state

• Conflict over states rights

• Conflict over Fugitive Slave Law

• Missouri Compromise 1820

• 1850 Compromise

This resolved (temporarily) the issue of slavery in the newly acquired territories.

• Conflict over states rights

• Conflict over Fugitive Slave Law

• Missouri Compromise 1820

• 1850 Compromise

13th president of the USA

• Millard Fillmore

• Zachary Taylor

• Thomas Jefferson

• Abe Lincoln

allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state – but prohibited slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of 36 degrees and 30 minutes north latitude,

• John Polk Compromise

• Henry Clay Compromise

• Missouri Compromise

• Georgia Gold Compromise

This provided for Maine to enter the Union as a free state, balancing the number of slave and free states in the Union, with 12 each.

• Maine Compromise

• Henry Clay Compromise

• Missouri Compromise

• Georgia Gold Compromise

A set of five separate bills passed by the U.S, Congress in September of 1850, which were meant to settle a four-year confrontation between slave and free states regarding land acquired during the Mexican-American War

• Mexico Compromise

• 1835 Compromise

• Slave State Compromise

• Compromise of 1850