Ch. 21.2 Lesson Review

• 7 anti-slavery colonies/states & 6 slavery colonies/states

• Anti-Slavery Colonies/States controlled the 'slave issue'

Thinking of how Congress works, how would the anti-slavery states control laws about slavery?

• From 1791-1819 new states entered the Union in pairs

• Higher population in free states than slave states (House of Reps...)

Why would the population of the free states be greater than that of the slave states?

• Always more people in free states than slave states

• Think ---- Why would this be important for who has the most power in Congress? (HINT: House of Reps...)

• Northwest Ordinance explained how to govern new territory

• Slavery made illegal northwest of the Ohio River

How would this impact slavery in the USA?

• When Missouri wanted to join the Union (1819)....

• they wanted to be a slave state

There were two problems....

• There would be 1 more slave state than free state

• MO was north of the Ohio River

• Tallmadge Amendment (1819)

• no new slave in Missouri....children born into slavery free @ 25

• Would slave owners go for this compromise?

• Did not pass both houses in Congress