N & S take different paths, Mo Comp, Wilmot Proviso, comp of 1850

South FPM

• few wealthy planters controlled southern society'

• planters invented in slaves rather than industry

• majority poor white farmers, accepted slavery because it kept them off the bottom of society

North MAMPA

• morally wrong

• afraid would spread west

• more slave states than free

• possibly lose voice in gov

• afraid white workers lose jobs to slaves

Missouri Compromise

law to maintain balance of power between free and slave

Missouri Compromise results MMS

• maine becomes free state

• MO enters union as slave state

• slavery banned from the LA. territory North of the 36-30 line

Free soil movement

david wilmot from PA introduces Proviso

Wilmot proviso

bill that would outlaw slavery in lands acquired from mexico

wilmot proviso explantaion OADMF

• outlaw slavery in the west

• approved in HOR

• defeated in Senate

• new movement began w/ resistance of slavery

• “free land, free speech, free labor, free men”

compromise of 1850

n + s break 15-15 tie for free/slave states

what happened in comp of 1850 that pleased the north CS

• CA becomes free state

• slave trade banned in DC

what happened in comp of 1850 that pleased the south TS

• territories obtained from mexico decide under popular sovereignty

• strict fugitive slave law enforced

magic # →1820 - it was a territory

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