Failed Attempts At Compromise
Slavery in the United States:
Attempts at and Failure of
Compromise
The Path to Civil War
Ms. Wallace • Sobrato High School
Thursday, November 3, 2011
It all started at the Constitutional Convention
The Three-Fifths Compromise
Allowed southern states to count 3/5 of their slave populations for purposes of determining how many representatives they would receive in Congress. Since the number of electors a state receives in the electoral college is based on the number of members of Congress it has, this also led to Thomas Jefferson’s being referred to by disgruntled northerners as “The Negro President.”
The Commerce Compromise
Included the provision that Congress could not forbid the importation of any person
(this means slave), nor tax the importation of any person by more than $10, for a period of twenty years after the adoption of the Constitution (which was in 1788). In
January of 1808, Congress did ban the importation of slaves.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
The Missouri Compromise (1820) worked out to maintain the balance in the
Senate between free and slave states proposed by Senator Henry Clay
Maine admitted as a free state (#23)
Missouri admitted as a slave state (#24) slavery prohibited in the remainder of the
Louisiana Purchase north of 36°30’
Thursday, November 3, 2011
The Missouri Compromise
Thursday, November 3, 2011
The Nullification Crisis and the Compromise of 1833
The “Tariff of Abominations” (1828) was passed to protect northern industries, which outraged southerners who had to pay higher prices for goods. Vice President John C.
Calhoun secretly authors the South Carolina Exposition, arguing that states could and should nullify the tariff. (Remember the Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions in response to the Alien & Sedition Acts? )
The Tariff of 1832 passed, lowering the tariff of 1828, but it was still opposed by the
South.
South Carolina, led by Calhoun, voted to nullify the tariff, and President Andrew
Jackson threatened to hang the
Attempts at and Failure of
Compromise
The Path to Civil War
Ms. Wallace • Sobrato High School
Thursday, November 3, 2011
It all started at the Constitutional Convention
The Three-Fifths Compromise
Allowed southern states to count 3/5 of their slave populations for purposes of determining how many representatives they would receive in Congress. Since the number of electors a state receives in the electoral college is based on the number of members of Congress it has, this also led to Thomas Jefferson’s being referred to by disgruntled northerners as “The Negro President.”
The Commerce Compromise
Included the provision that Congress could not forbid the importation of any person
(this means slave), nor tax the importation of any person by more than $10, for a period of twenty years after the adoption of the Constitution (which was in 1788). In
January of 1808, Congress did ban the importation of slaves.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
The Missouri Compromise (1820) worked out to maintain the balance in the
Senate between free and slave states proposed by Senator Henry Clay
Maine admitted as a free state (#23)
Missouri admitted as a slave state (#24) slavery prohibited in the remainder of the
Louisiana Purchase north of 36°30’
Thursday, November 3, 2011
The Missouri Compromise
Thursday, November 3, 2011
The Nullification Crisis and the Compromise of 1833
The “Tariff of Abominations” (1828) was passed to protect northern industries, which outraged southerners who had to pay higher prices for goods. Vice President John C.
Calhoun secretly authors the South Carolina Exposition, arguing that states could and should nullify the tariff. (Remember the Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions in response to the Alien & Sedition Acts? )
The Tariff of 1832 passed, lowering the tariff of 1828, but it was still opposed by the
South.
South Carolina, led by Calhoun, voted to nullify the tariff, and President Andrew
Jackson threatened to hang the