Class Update: 11-13-12 and 11-14-12

Field trip! Yesterday we went to the computer lab to do work with a map of the United States in 1820 on the computer. The map showed the amount of slave states and free states and also showed Arkansas Territory and the Unorganized Territory. The Southerners outnumbered the Northerners which meant that in the house of representatives the power was swayed in favor of the Southerners. But, in the Senate the balance between the two was relatively equal. When the south wanted Missouri added to the union, Northerners feared that another state in the south would upset the balance. The Missouri compromise added Maine as it own state restoring balance. Today we talked more about the Missouri compromise and the Mexican war. This was the war between the U.S. and Mexico over the southern border of Texas. In the end the United States also received land which made it a "Two ocean country".