Missouri Compromise Research Paper

Missouri Compromise

The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to calm down the sectional and political enemies that had gotten angry by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. The United States had twenty-two states. It was evenly distributed into half slave states and half free states. If Missouri were to become a state, it would ruin the balance. It would also set a example for congressional acceptance in the expansion of slavery. Before 1819, Missouri was in the process of becoming a territory, the Representative James Tallmadge of New York had proposed an amendment that would have ended slavery there. It was defeated.

The debate on whether Missouri should become a state …show more content…
There were a total of 65 passengers and 17 of a crew. Ten got into the jolly boat and forty-one got into the long boat, which may have been in good condition, but then started to leak because the plug had fallen out. Passengers had buckets, tins, and by bailing, were able to reduce the water. 31 people had to stay in the ship and sink with it. The long boat started to have a lot of water on board, so the captain that was on the jolly boat decided he would take some and if it were necessary, to do lots and throw some overboard. But it wasn’t …show more content…
Sanford

Dred Scott was a slave who lived with his owner in a free state, before going back to Missouri. His owner who had died, John Emerson, had a wife. He sued her for his freedom, but lost in court. Mrs. Emerson left him with her brother, John Sanford, who is a New York citizen. Dred Scott sued him for claiming Missouri citizenship, so he sued him in federal court. Scott’s lawyer‘s had gone to the U.S Supreme Court.

Justice Samuel Nelson was supposed to write a opinion saying that the case should belong in the state, not a federal court. Northern justices John McLean and Benjamin R. Curtis planned to argue that Scott should be freed under the Missouri Compromise because he had traveled north of the 36°30′ line. While the court’s southerners wanted to rule the compromise. Dred Scott lost. Dred Scott v. Sandford helped Abraham Lincoln‘s election and the Civil

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