Analyze the mileage key of Map 5-3. How large, comparatively, was ...

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Analyze the mileage key of Map 5-3. How large, comparatively, was the Unorganized Territory relative to the size of the South? Why is this significant for the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Analyze Map 5-3. How is the Missouri Compromise an example of favorable legislation for the North? Why did the terms of the compromise trouble the South?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[mcni194]

Answer to Question 1

Ideal Answer: The ideal answer should:
1. Define the relative size of the Unorganized Territory, using the mileage key, as approximately 1000 square miles.
2. Define the relative size of the southern states, using the mileage key, as approximately the same size as the Unorganized Territory.
3. Define the specific terms of the Missouri Compromise: Maine is admitted as a free state to balance the admission of Missouri as a slave state; the southern border of Missouri becomes the boundary line for exclusion of slavery from the Unorganized Territory.
4. Comment on the significance of the Missouri Compromise in allowing Congress to exclude officially a large territory from the expansion of slavery.

Answer to Question 2

Ideal Answer: The ideal answer should:
1. Define the earlier Northwest Ordinance and its ban against slavery.
2. Note that the legislation banned slavery north of the Missouri Compromise line, which pleased northern free labor interests.
3. Explain that southern whites felt that the federal government had tampered with a state right by placing a federal limitation to the expansion of slavery.
4. Conclude that southern whites were also disappointed that slavery could not legally expand into new western territories that ironically held similar amounts of acreage as the southern states.