Part one of term paper
The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820. It did not end the debate over slavery. Trouble started brewing when Texas wanted to be a state. One problem: there was no free state to accompany Texas into the Union. As the Missouri Compromise states that a slave state and a free state must enter the Union together (Stated on COMPTON’S ENC ...

Part two of term paper
... up again. This time, we were questioning whether to turn the territory we seized from the Mexican War into free or slave territory. President Polk suggested stretching the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific. While others stated that Popular Sovereignty should be placed in effect and that the people living in the territory should decide whether they live in a slave or free state. Still, others proclaimed that slavery should be banned completely in the land seized from Mexico. Calhoun sai ...