1. BELL WORK!!! In your own words describe the conflict between states rights and federal rights. (Use the essay model we went over on Tuesday)

2. Henry Clay The Great Compromiser

3. Who was this man?? Was a U.S. Congressmen, Both in the House and Senate and even Secretary of State from 1811-1852. He was in the middle of the state versus federal power struggle Known As the Great Compromiser

4. Compromise What is it? – To come to a middle ground in an issue 3 Main events that formed Henry Clays career  Compromise of 1820 or Missouri Compromise  Nullification Crisis  Compromise of 1850

5. Missouri Compromise Missouri Territory wanted statehood, but the problem was that it was a slave state…..

6. Unequal Number Slave states and free states would have been unequal …. Why would this matter?? (hint- remember the states rights lesson)

7. Compromise Missouri Came in as a slave state Main came as a free state Compromise line, any Territory above this line is a free state, below Is a slave state.

8. Nullification Crisis What is it to nullify something? Quick story: – Federal Government in 1832 raised Tariffs to a high level. – What is a tariff again?

9. So What?? What were the effects on tariffs in the north and south? So….. South Carolina decided it didn’t like the law, so it Nullified the law and wouldn’t follow it.

10. After years of this… Henry Clay and others offered to compromise on the issue… Eventually the tariff got lowered and the power of the federal government got upheld

11. Lastly, Compromise of 1850 What do you think was the dispute now?? – Remember we just won the Mexican-American War!!!!!  It was over the newly acquired territory from the war!!!

12. Remember that is the approximate Line of the Missourri Compromise!!

13. New Compromise 1.California admitted to the Union as a free state 2.No more slave trade in D.C. 3.Tougher Fugitive slave law 4.Organization of Territories 5.Texas given up much of it’s territory in exchange for the payment of it’s national debt

14. Aftermath Delayed the succession of the states by a decade!! Senator Henry S. Foote of Mississippi said, "Had there been one such man in the Congress of the United States as Henry Clay in 1860–'61 there would, I feel sure, have been no civil war."