The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Mis...
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(1820), in U.S. history, measure worked out between the North and the South and passed by the U.S. Congress that allowed for admission of Missouri as ... [10 related articles]
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In US history, the solution by Congress (1820-21) of a sectional crisis caused by the request from Missouri for admission to the Union as a slave state, despite its proximity to existing nonslave...
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The Missouri Compromise was a compromise in America effected by the Act of Congress of March the 3rd, 1830, between those who desired the extension of slavery into the regions beyond the Mississippi and those who desired its restriction. Missouri having applied for admission as a State, Tallmadge, of New York, in February, 1819, proposed an amendme...
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n] - an agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories
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noun an agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories
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In US history, the solution by Congress (1820–21) of a sectional crisis caused by the request from Missouri for admission to the Union as a slave state, despite its proximity to existing nonslave states. The compromise was the admission of Maine as a nonslave state to keep the same ratio. In addition, slavery was forbidden in the other areas o......
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