Thomas Jefferson and Slavery (Missouri Compromise: Part 2) - APUSH Review

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The Missouri Compromise: Part II

View Part I Here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JS5IzJdcTA

When the Missouri Compromise was passed by Congress, many thought that the slavery debate had been settled, but Thomas Jefferson, when he heard the news in retirement, did not think so. He wrote to his friend, John Holmes, that the news of the debate awakened him "like a fire bell in the night" and he heard "the knell of the Union" in the news that Congress was debating the slavery issue. Jefferson believed that the South had "the wolf by the ear" where slavery was concerned, being in a precarious position with no way out in the near future.

The Missouri Compromise marks the beginning of the Antebellum Period of US History (1820-1860) because it had to do with both slavery and westward expansion - two of the most important themes of this period. Over time, as Northern abolitionists denounced slavery and slaveholders, Southern elites would move away from Jefferson's view of slavery as a necessary evil to a view of slavery as a positive good. The slavery issue - especially concerning the expansion of slavery - would become the most contentious issue in the sectional debates of the Antebellum period.

This material fits in with the content of APUSH Period 4 (1800-1848).

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