1. Nationalism, Sectionalism and Compromise

2. Nationalism:
Pride in your nation

3. Sectionalism: pride and loyalty in the region or section of the country where you live rather than the nation as a whole

4. Developed by Henry Clay
American System
Developed by Henry Clay
(he was a politician known as the “Great Pacificator” because he arranged compromises between so many other politicians)

5. National bank so that Americans would use the same kind of money
Protective tariff which made American goods less expensive than European goods
National bank so that Americans would use the same kind of money
Improve transportation for trade

6. The problem: Missouri Compromise
People living in Missouri wanted to become a state
The problem:
they wanted their state to allow slavery

7. Missouri Compromise
At the time their were an even number of slave states and free states (11 of each)
The balance of power would shift to those states which allowed slavery
There were an equal number of slave and free states.

8. Maine (formerly part of Massachusetts) would become a free state
Missouri would become a slave state
All new states above the latitude line 36 / 30 would be free, below would allow slaves

9. Missouri Compromise