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Growing Sectionalism

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  1. Growing Sectionalism • This was due to the differing opinions over slavery. • How should new states be brought into the Union? • Slave States • Free States • This could upset the balance of power in Congress.

  2. Missouri Compromise • 1819 There were eleven free and eleven slave states. • Missouri requested admission into the Union as a slave state. • Compromise • Maine would be admitted as a free state • Missouri as a slave state • No more slavery in the Louisiana Territory

  3. Election of 1824 • Four candidates in the election of 1824 • “Favorite Sons” were men who had support from their own state and region. • Henry Clay of KY • Andrew Jackson of TN • John Q. Adams of MA • William Crawford of GA

  4. Election of 1824 • Jackson won the popular vote; however, none of the candidates won a majority of the Electoral Vote • The Election went to the House where Clay supported Adams, if Adams would make Clay the Secretary of State • Jackson refers to the election as a “Corrupt Bargain” • Democratic Republicans – Democrats • National Republican - Adams

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