US History › Section F · Westward expansion and the cotton South › Topic F.2
The Missouri Crisis
When Missouri asked to join the Union in 1819, a routine statehood bill turned into the first great national fight over the spread of slavery. The compromise that ended it held for a generation, but it drew a line across the map that sectional politics never forgot.
In this topic
- A routine request becomes a crisis
- The Tallmadge Amendment
- Representation and the three-fifths clause
- Worked example: why the Senate balance mattered
- The arguments in Congress
- The Missouri Compromise of 1820
- A second crisis over citizenship
- Worked example: Jefferson's fire bell
- Why the crisis mattered
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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