1. What is sectionalism?
• When you feel loyalty to a state or region rather than the country as a
whole.
2.. The Missouri Compromise ◦What was the problem with Missouri
entering the union?
◦What was the "compromise?"
‣ MO slave state, ME free state
‣ 36/30 latitude line 3. Shade in red where the slave states
were after the Missouri compromise. Shade in blue where the free states
were. Shade in yellow the area that was not yet a state. New Western Lands 1. What were northerners worried about with the land to the west?
• That southerners would bring slaves to the territory which would eventually
mean they would become slave states.
2. What was the Wilmot Proviso?
• No slavery allowed in any territory won from
Opposing views
1. What view united the South?
• Slavery
2. How did northerners feel about this view?
• That slave's civil liberties were being taken away, and this was bad.
The problem with California
1. What was so threatening about California's admittance to the
union as a free state?
• That the territory around it would also become free states.
2. What was the debate between northerners and southerners?
Southerners - if CA becomes a free state, the slave states would be
outnumbered in the senate.
Northerners - Yes, but California is above the 36/30 line and should
technically be a free state anyways.
3. Debate in the senate?
Compromise of 1850
1. List the 5 parts to this compromise.
◦California enters as a free state
◦Divide the rest of the Mexican cession
into two territories - New Mexico and
Utah. (Popular sovereignty here)
◦Ended the slave trade in Washington
D.c.
◦Settled land dispute between Mexico and Texas.
◦Fugitive Slave Law