BE PREPARED…o Grab papers from the tableo Get 4 colors (pencils or highlighters)o Take out HW 1. Chapter 15-2 Notes 2. Cartoon

HOMEWORK:

16.2 Notes #1-23

The classroom has been divided up.

Suppose Mr. Berlanda and GR are allowing one of the groups today

to earn candy.

The group that has more votes…wins!

Both groups will have a chance to vote on which side should get the

candy!

Group 1 – How would you feel if your fellow classmate joined your

group?Why?

Group 2 – How would you feel if your fellow classmate joined the other

group?Why?

The Missouri Compromise

1) What did Thomas Jefferson know could eventually tear the country apart?

The issue of slavery

2) By the year 1819, how many slave states were in the Union?

“Free”“Slave”

11 slave states were in the Union

3) How many slave states were in the Union?

“Free”“Slave”

11 free states were in the Union

4) Why were Northern states upset that Missouri wanted to become a “slave state”?

If Missouri became a slave state, the south would have a majority in the

Senate

Your fellow classmate __________, go join group 1

5) Who created a compromise to uphold the balance of free and slave states?

Henry Clay – “The Great Compromiser”

6) What were the THREE parts of the Missouri Compromise?

1) Maine became a free state2) Missouri became a slave state3) A line was drawn at 36⁰30’ (southern border of Missouri).

Land above the line banned slavery. Land below the line allowed slavery.

Created by Henry Clay; kept the balance between slave and free equal; drew a line under Missouri, South is slave, North is free; Missouri is slave, Maine is free

7) Vocab. – Missouri Compromise

An Uneven Balance

If Missouri entered the Union as a slave state, the south would have

a majority in the Senate

The Missouri Compromise

Missouri enters as a ___ state and ___ enters as a ___ state

A line was drawn separating Louisiana Purchase land (future free and slave states)

36⁰, 30’

Let’s jump in our time

machine and go 30 years

into the future…

The year is 1850 and new states (free and slave have been added) according to the

Missouri Compromise

Write the names of the free and slave states in 1850 on you sheet…

FREE Michigan Wisconsin Iowa Maine Illinois Indiana Ohio Vermont Rhode Island New York New Hampshire Massachusetts Connecticut New Jersey Pennsylvania

SLAVE Florida Texas Arkansas Missouri Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Tennessee Kentucky Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Maryland Georgia DelawareC

aliforni

a

What’s the problem with this? Copy these states

onto the page in your packet

LEAVING????? John C. Calhoun of South Carolina

threatens SECESSION (withdraw from the Union)

Compromise of 1850Author = HENRY CLAY (the Great Compromiser)

North1) California enters

as a free state2) Slave trade

banned in Washington D.C.

South3) Fugitive Slave Law

required all citizens to help capture runaway slaves.

4) The people in the New Mexico and Utah territories will decide if their states become slave or free – NOT CONGRESS

#18 Parts of the

Compromise

Indian Territor

y

Fill in the Compromise of 1850 map

Popular sovereignty gave the people the right to decide issues (like

slavery)