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Missouri Compromise
Merchant Farmer
Slave Woman fighting
for rights
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was a step in trying to divide the country between free and slave states. In 1820 there were an even number of slave states and free states, but then Missouri wanted to become a state. Missouri was a slave state basically, but people didn't want to offset the power of slave or free state. They therefore made a compromise in which Missouri would be made a slave state and Maine when created would be made a free state. After that every state above the latitude line of 36o36' would be a free state and every state below that line would be a slave state.
Questions to think about:
Why would it have been bad to have more slave or free
states?
Could this separation help cause anything later on
in history?
What would have happened if Missouri would have become
a free state and not a slave state?
Links to find out more:
-Basic
history about Missouri Compromise of 1820
-More history of the Missouri Compromise of 1820
-Place to look for Democrat Information
-Place to look for Whig Information
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The merchants in the North first were interested in slaves because of the slave trade and being able to buy them from areas and sell them to people. This in turn made them lots of money. However the buying of slaves from Africa was no longer allowed so the merchants became interested in other types of selling and trading. They started to realize how slaves should not be used like they once were. However it would be interesting to see how they were not ready to give the slaves rights though they were ready to let them free.
Questions to think about:
Why wouldn't they want the slaves to have the same
rights as them?
If many people didn't want them to have the same rights,
why did they care that they were free?
What other items were they more concerned with selling
and trading?
-A
point of view of Northern people from a slave perspective
Farmers are associated with the South as having slaves working on their farms. The South in general is characterized by having an agricultural society as opposed to the North. However, most farmers could not afford slaves and most were owned by plantation owners. The slaves that most farmers could have would be help in the field as the farmer themselves would help in the field as well. They were still stuck on the idea of slaves though because they thought it helped their industry a lot.
Questions to think about:
How dependent were the farmers of the South on slaves?
Why would some farmers even without slaves not want
to change their state to a free state?
-Information
on sides of slavery
There are the viewpoints of slaves that can be seen in many ways. They have gone through so much hard ship in the United States. Not only did they have all the time while being slaves, but the ones that were freed had a hard time adjusting to life as well. It however was not made easy by the people of the North. African-Americans had a very hard time gaining freedom even when they were told that they were not slaves anymore.
Questions to think about:
Was it easy for ex-slaves in the North after being
freed? If not, then why?
What were problems they would have with other people?
Why did they keep trying after all the problems that
were thrown at them?
Questions to think about:
Why wouldn't men want the women to have the same rights
as them?
What kind of woman fought for their
rights?
What risks did women take when they fought for their
rights?
Links to find out more:
-Suffrage:
Voting Rights
-Education,
Politics, and Employment
-Women's
Leadership
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