Wednesday, January 25, 2012

chapter 15 11-21

11. The purpose of the Missouri Compromise was to keep the same number of slave states and the number of free states in the Union. It allowed Missouri to be a slave state at the same time. Slavery was not allowed in new states north of the southern border of Missouri.
12. California is a free state, divide mexican group into two, new mexico and utah, ended slave trade in Washington DC, fugitive slave act was passed, border dispute settled between texas, and new mexico 
13. to divide clay's plans to vote on them separately
14. Lincoln and Douglas had a debate, Lincoln lost the election but had a huge national rep.
15. The decision was that blacks were not the citizens of the U.S and lacked sueing in court. It declared the congress could not ban slavery. Slaves could not be taken by their owner, the 14th amendment over ruled it thou on some levels. 
16.The Democratic party split over the slavery issue and got two people in separate conventions. The Rebulicans got two people as well  John Bell, from a new Southern party,  John C. Breckinridge, Southern Democrat, Stephen A. Douglas, Northern Democrat, Abraham Lincoln , Republican (Northern)
17. He wanted new states to remain free and not to become slave states.
18. Because slavery was a big deal and the whole country either wanted slaves really bad or didn't at all. It made the country seem two the good side, and the bad side.
19. Northerners protested against it becasue they hated his ideas and hated slavery as wel.
20. One way was the debates on weather to have slavery or not, or free states or not. It made one half of the country look better when really they were suppose to be together. It separated the government into two the Democrat party, and Republican.
21. The north had a larger population which made it be their more votes while the south had more slaves not white men.

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