The CompromisesUnit 1

Pre-Civil War

The Missouri Compromise(aka The Compromise of 1820)

• Keeps the balance between free states and slave states

• 36 30’ line– No slavery above (except Missouri)

• Maine– Free state

• Missouri– Slave state

The Compromise of 1850

• California enters as a free state (Gold Rush 49)• Henry Clay “The Great Compromiser”• Outlaws slavery in Washington D.C.• Fugitive slave act of 1850

Kansas Nebraska Act 1854

• “Bleeding Kansas” violence• People from Missouri go to Kansas to vote

pro-slavery• Lawrence, Kansas attacked by pro-slavery

group• John Brown, the abolitionist

Preston Brooks v Charles Sumner