The legacy of the past

• Slavery was prohibited in the territories north of 36°30' (Missouri's southern border)
• Missouri entered the Union as a slave state
• President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise
• Outlawed slavery above the 36º 30' latitude line in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory
• Missouri Compromise


  • Admitted Maine
  • Admitted Missouri
  • Restricted slavery to territories south of the latitude 36º30' north
  • Allowed slaveholders to pursue escaped enslaved persons in free areas
• This legislation admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time, so as not to upset the balance between slave and free states in the nation
• Maine entered the Union as a free state
• The Nullification Crisis was the first time that friction between state and federal authority began to create enough tension that it almost led to a civil war
• South Carolina adopted the Ordinance of Nullification, declaring the tariffs null, void, and nonbinding in the state
• The Nullification Crisis might have been over but the larger questions about States' Rights remained unanswered
• Andrew Jackson's leadership in this crisis forestalled secession by nearly 30 years
• U.S. President Andrew Jackson responded in December 1832 by issuing a proclamation that asserted the supremacy of the federal government
• Fear of modernisation


  Could destroy their way of life including slavery
• Skilled labor positions

  Such as blacksmiths
• The U.S. government did not have the right to decide whether slavery should be allowed in a state
• The South are economically backward by choice
• Reasons for southern fear of the federal government

  • Fear of end of slavery
  • Fear of urbanisation
  • Fear of mixing of the races
• Southern way of life in the 1800s

  • Small farms
  • Big plantations
  • Cotton
  • Tobacco
  • Corn
  • Sugar
  • Rice
  • Most slaves lived on big plantations
  • Many Southerners wanted slavery
• Fear of urbanisation


  Followed by mixing of the races
• What did the Southern states fear

  That the federal government would attempt to end slavery