HIST 103A Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: James Tallmadge Jr., Northwest Ordinance, Upland South
5 Apr 2018
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Rift over whether or not to admit missouri as a slave state. Missouri had fulfilled its territorial requirements, and held its. Constitutional convention and petitioned to be added to the union. Missouri is primarily settled by men and women from the upper south and their slave properties (wheat and corn) James tallmadge introduces amendments to the enabling bill that would allow missouri into the union as a state. 1) ban further introduction of slavery into the new state. 2) free all slaves born in missouri after they reached age 25. No more importation of slavery, and the slaves that are already there are freed after age 25. Continued unity between the north and the south was at stake. Arguments in the house shed light on the political divide. Continued protection for slavery, through the continued overrepresentation of slave states in congress. Northerners were afraid that the slave states would have a majority vote in the.
