1. The Missouri Compromise
A slide show about The Missouri Compromise, by: Ryan Renemans

2. What Was My Focus Question?
My focus question was, “What lead to the Missouri Comprise, and what did it cause?”
This question is basically asking me why the Missouri Compromise was important, and how it had changed history
I will answer my focus question by telling you about what happened before, during, and after the Missouri Compromise

3. What Lead Up to the Missouri Compromise
In the years prior to the Missouri Compromise being put into place, a couple of important events happened.
An important event that lead to the Missouri Compromise was the time when Spain ceded the Florida boundary to America in 1819
This lead to the decision of whether Florida should be a slave state or not, which in turn got people thinking about slavery
This caused the Missouri Compromise to be put into place.
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4. What Is the Missouri Compromise?
This was a document that made Missouri a slave state, and Maine a free state to slavery
This had happened because Missouri wanted to be a slave-state, but if Missouri had became pro slavery then the balance of slave- states to free-states would be more for the slave side.
They didn’t want this to happen so they made Maine (previously a slave-state) a free-state. They then changed Missouri to a slave- state
The Compromise also had an amendment that had a boundary going through the Louisiana territory to separate slave, and non- slave-states

5. What This Event Caused
This event made Americans who were pro slavery and anti slavery argue over slavery. It also caused the unbiased people to take sides
This made for a lot of unhappy people, and made people question the government.
This act made the representative of New York, James Tallmadge, propose a plan to abolish slavery entirely.
The act had caused lots of bitter fights and arguments in Congress over whether or not they should have passed the law.

6. What This Event Caused Continued
Then, after 30 years of the law being accepted and holding up, the Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 was put into place
This law made it so that in Kansas and Nebraska the people could choose whether or not they wanted slavery.
In turn, Congress then questioned the Missouri Compromise, and considered it unconstitutional
This act had made everybody in America debate slavery, and question whether it was constitutional or not
It also made Congress give laws and acts more thought before passing them, so that they would not upset the people

7. A Map of the Missouri Compromise

8. Works Cited (Information)
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