APUSH outline slavery
Laura Denning Wilson January 5, 2011 Essential Question A ? Thesis: The opposition against slavery in the North is exemplified by the polital action and argument against it during the Missouri compromise, the compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska act. I. Missouri Compromise A. 12-to-11 Upset 1. Missouri wanted to join the US as a slave state a. Missouri would be a cotton producing state i. Needed slaves for cotton production 2. Upset anti-slavery figures a. Upset the balance of 11-to-11 free/slave states i. Threatened the Northern powers in congress ii. Simply unacceptable for there to be more slave than free states. B. Missouri Compromise 1. Proposed by Henry Clay ? Speaker of the House 2. Maine ? enter free; Missouri ? slave.