(Lecture 13) Politics of Slavery

Question 1

What was the Missouri Compromise? when?

Answer 1

1820
Admitted Missouri into Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state

Question 2

How many slaves left in north by 1830?

Answer 2

3,000

Question 3

Northwest Ordinance 1787?

Answer 3

slaves banned from these territories.
tensions raised.
first national legislation setting limits on expansion of slavery.

Question 4

Northwest emancipation, 1777-1804?

Answer 4

Constitutional emancipation- Vermont
Judicial- Massachusetts
Constitutional interpretation- New Hampshire.
Legislative- Penn, Connecticut, RI, NY, NJ

Question 5

what did slavery do to the south?

Answer 5

unified it

Question 6

what happened in the 1800 petition?

Answer 6

85 to 1 against emancipation
Congress no right to interfere in states’ affairs

Question 7

Ban on slave importation 1808?

Answer 7

20-year non-interference deal was signed, day later the slave trade wan banned.
Jump in importation before the ban

Question 8

How many free and slave states were there during Missouri Compromise?

Answer 8

11 each

Question 9

What did James Talmadge do?

Answer 9

introduce programme to gradually emancipate Missouri slaves, Senate refused it

Question 10

What happened in 1820 under Henry Clay?

Answer 10

Prohibition of slavery in Louisiana Purchase territories.
Missouri could keep slavery
Arkansas problem

Question 11

Was the Compromise satisfactory?

Answer 11

no

Question 12

what was born out of the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 12

the Democratic Party and Jackson on the rise