The Missouri Compromise - Who won?
SWBAT: analyze and investigate an interactive map of the United States in 1820
IOT: determine if the Missouri Compromise of 1820 settled the debate over the future of slavery
8.1.12.B: Synthesize and evaluate historical sources.
First:
Read about the Missouri Compromise on p. 167-168 in the African-American History text:
Then:
Use the interactive map to address the questions below.
Keep in mind, I'll collect only the Essential question below.
Interactive Map:
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/static/neh/interactives/sectionalism/lesson1/
Chart for questions:
http://edsitement.neh.gov/sites/edsitement.neh.gov/files/worksheets/MissouriMap02.pdf
Essential Question - to be answered in depth using evidence from the questions above:
Could either side be considered the winner in this compromise? Why or why not?
IOT: determine if the Missouri Compromise of 1820 settled the debate over the future of slavery
8.1.12.B: Synthesize and evaluate historical sources.
First:
Read about the Missouri Compromise on p. 167-168 in the African-American History text:
Then:
Use the interactive map to address the questions below.
Keep in mind, I'll collect only the Essential question below.
Interactive Map:
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/static/neh/interactives/sectionalism/lesson1/
Chart for questions:
http://edsitement.neh.gov/sites/edsitement.neh.gov/files/worksheets/MissouriMap02.pdf
- What changes did the Missouri Compromise bring to the U. S. map?
- How did the Missouri Compromise solve the problem of keeping the balance of power in the Senate between free and slave states?
- What territory was added to the slave side?
- What territory was to be kept free of slavery?
- What did the South stand to gain as a result of the Compromise? What did the South stand to lose?
- Why would the South begin to look to the land to the west of the borders of the U.S., in what was then part of Mexico?
Essential Question - to be answered in depth using evidence from the questions above:
Could either side be considered the winner in this compromise? Why or why not?