• Missouri comes in as a slave state

• Maine comes in as a free state

• 36/30 line to divide the slaves and free states

Prepare to explain key characteristics of the Missouri Compromise

American military setbacks increased opposition to the war among the Federalists. Afterwards, the Republicans split into two camps: National Republicans and Jeffersonian Republicans. No more fighting with Canada after the War of 1812. The war of 1812 destroyed the Federalist party because of the Hartford Convention.  

In 1820, people have spilled over into the Louisiana territory. Missouri wants to come in as a slave state.

• Limiting the office to a single four year term and rotating it among citizens from different states

• Placed a restriction on embargos to 60 days and requiring ⅔ of the majority in congress to declare war, prohibit trade, or admit a new state to the union.

What constitutional amendments did the Hartford Convention 

propose?

• Gave Britain control of the eastern half of North America and returned a few captured sugar islands in the West Indies to France.

• The Indians were stripped of their rights to their land[i.e. The Cherokees were forced to relinquish claims to 5 million acres (3 quarters of their territory) in treaties with Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia]

• Granted Americans fishing rights off Newfoundland and Nova Scotia

• Prohibited the British from carrying away any “negroes or other property”

• Guaranteed freedom of navigation on the Mississippi to American citizens “forever”

• Allowed British merchants to pursue legal claims for prewar debts and encouraged state legislature to to return confiscated property to Loyalists and grant them citizenship

• We become independent. British recognizes our independence. Trans-appalachian west. The British demand us to repay so that they would take their soldiers out from the trans-appalachian west. No side keeps their promise and this leads to the war of 1812.

  
  

• Territories could become states as their populations grew.

• The ordinance also required that half of the townships be sold in single blocks of 23,040 acres each

• Created territories that would eventually become the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin

• Prohibited slavery and earmarked funds from land sales for the support of schools.

• Provided for orderly settlement and the admission of new states on the basis of equality.

  
  

• The Virginia plan rejected state sovereignty, it called for national government to be established by the people, and for national laws to operate directly on citizens of the various states.

• The New Jersey plan gave the confederation the power to raise revenue, control commerce, and make binding requisitions on the states. It also preserved the states control on their own laws and guaranteed their equality.

• The Great Compromise ensure that the national’s legislature upper chamber have two Senates from each state while seats in the lower chamber be apportioned by population.