Western Settlement and the Missouri Compromise, pp 154-157 Key Concepts & Main Ideas Notes Analysis The American Western Settlement and the Missouri Compromise… To what extent was westward acquisition of expansion responsible for increasing lands in the sectional conflict? Explain your West gave rise to answer. a contest over the Reasons for Westward Movement… extension of slavery into the western Acquisition of American Indians’ territories as well as a series of attempts at national compromise Whites living on the frontier Economic Pressures… tended to champion expansion efforts, Explain how a 19th century America while resistance pioneer would view “acquiring by American American Indian land” as justifiable. Improved Transportation… Indians led to a Consider the culture clash of sequence of wars Americans and American-Indians. and federal efforts to control American Indian Immigrants… populations. The 1820 Missouri New Questions and Issues… Compromise created a truce over the issue of slavery that gradually broke 1. down as Support, refute, or modify the following confrontations statement: Henry Clay was the Great over slavery Pacificator and the Great 2. became Compromiser. increasingly bitter. 3. As over- cultivation depleted arable land in the Missouri Compromise… Southeast, slaveholders relocated their agricultural enterprises to the new Southwest, Thomas Jefferson’s reaction to the increasing Missouri Compromise included, "But, sectional tensions over the as it is, we have the wolf by the ear, Tallmadge institution of and we can neither hold him, nor slavery and safely let him go. Justice is in one Amendment… 1. sparking a broad scale, and self-preservation in the scale debate other." (recorded at his home, about how to set 2. Monticello, Virginia, 22 April 1820) national goals, Explain the point Jefferson is priorities, and Clay’s making. Did he see the Missouri strategies. Compromise as a success? Proposals… 1. 2. 3. Aftermath…
Western Settlement and the Missouri Compromise, pp 154-157 Key Concepts & Main Ideas Notes Analysis The American acquisition of lands in the West gave rise to a contest over the extension of slavery into the western territories as well as a series of attempts at national compromise Whites living on the frontier tended to champion expansion efforts, while resistance by American Indians led to a sequence of wars and federal efforts to control American Indian populations. The 1820 Missouri Compromise created a truce over the issue of slavery that gradually broke down as confrontations over slavery became increasingly bitter. As over- cultivation depleted arable land in the Southeast, slaveholders relocated their agricultural enterprises to the new Southwest, increasing sectional tensions over the institution of slavery and sparking a broad scale debate about how to set national goals, priorities, and strategies. Western Settlement and the Missouri Compromise… Reasons for Westward Movement… Acquisition of American Indians’ Economic Pressures… Improved Transportation… Immigrants… New Questions and Issues… 1. 2. 3. Missouri Compromise… Tallmadge Amendment… 1. 2. Clay’s Proposals… 1. 2. 3. Aftermath… To what extent was westward expansion responsible for increasing sectional conflict? Explain your answer. Explain how a 19th century America pioneer would view “acquiring American Indian land” as justifiable. Consider the culture clash of Americans and American-Indians. Support, refute, or modify the following statement: Henry Clay was the Great Pacificator and the Great Compromiser. Thomas Jefferson’s reaction to the Missouri Compromise included, "But, as it is, we have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other." (recorded at his home, Monticello, Virginia, 22 April 1820) Explain the point Jefferson is making. Did he see the Missouri Compromise as a success?
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