Students have begun studying the events that lead up to the Civil War. Using what they learned during our Constitution unit about the disagreements over ratifying that document, students are seeing how that process led to major disagreements that eventually led to war. We have begun our study with a reading on the Missouri Compromise.
Discussion Questions:
1. How did the compromise make states in the North happy?
2. How did the compromise make states in the South happy?
3. Why did Henry Clay believe a compromise was necessary?