AMH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Missouri Compromise, Monroe Doctrine, Salver
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President monroe: era of good feelings: no war, only one political party, expanding in the us. Expansion: bought nola: foreign policy: monroe doctrine, cotton: reason for expansion. Missouri (just above of the ohio river) Planters move here, with slaves, to the area. Population in 1819: 66k: must apply for statehood. Each state has 2 people in the senate: 20 allow slavery, 20 don"t all slavery. If missouri allows slaves the balance is messed up because there would be 22 pro slave states: this is mess up the balance, reason they don"t because a state. 1819: 10 free states and 10 slave states (complete balance: 2 territories that"s didn"t allow slavery, 2 territories that allowed slavery. 1820: missouri compromise: wester war hawk, mr. We need 2 senate votes to create a balance- maine becomes a state (they were a part of ma) They become a free states with a population of 100k.
