Missouri Compromise, 1820

Question 1

1819 states

Answer 1

11 free
11 slave
Equal

Question 2

1820 Missouri

Answer 2

Petitioned to enter the union
Had a reasonable amount of slaves, but region was difficult to grow stuff in (meant slavery didn’t expand there)

Question 3

Maine also

Answer 3

Petitioned to join the union as a free state
Would have upset the balance of the free/slave states unless Missouri also entered

Question 4

Balance was important, particularly the south

Answer 4

Needed to guard their political power as the government was becoming stronger

Question 5

South had a smaller

Answer 5

White population than the north
Meant their votes had less sway

Question 6

New York representative introduced a

Answer 6

Programme for gradual emancipation in Missouri
Led to Congress debating the slavery issue

Question 7

Number of representatives in the House (Congress)

Answer 7

Had everything to do with the population

Question 8

Senate said no

Answer 8

To Missouri gradual emancipation programme
Meant it was not introduced

Question 9

1820
Henry Clay (speaker of the House)

Answer 9

Admitted Missouri as slave and Maine as free states

Question 10

Introduction of the compromise line

Answer 10

Nothing above Missouri (36 parallel) can be admitted to the union as a slave state (of the land that remained from the Louisiana purchase)

Question 11

Compromise line meant

Answer 11

The north had the most control of the Louisiana purchase

Question 12

Northerners feared

Answer 12

The expansion of slavery

Question 13

Southerners feared

Answer 13

The abolition of slavery

Question 14

Jefferson in 1820

Answer 14

Believed slavery would remain a problem

Question 15

Western expansion (aided by war with Mexico)

Answer 15

Threw the slave issue into disarray

Question 16

Growth of new national political party

Answer 16

Democratic party with Andrew Jackson at the head
Both north and south supported it