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Missouri Compromise
The issue was resolved by a two-part compromise. First, Missouri gained admission to the ... The enabling act of March 6, 1820, made it clear, however, that fugitive slaves could be apprehended ...
Where is the Mason-Dixon Line and why is it called that?
The 'Rust Belt' state of Pennsylvania will be key in the 2024 US presidential election and it contains the fascinating ...
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Excerpts from Abraham Lincoln's speech in Peoria
At length a compromise was made, in which, like all compromises, both sides yielded something. It was a law passed on the 6th day of March, 1820, providing that Missouri might come into the Union ...
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Letters: Readers discuss Congress’ self-investigation, Missouri Compromise and KCPD
Was the Missouri Compromise, which allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, an example of that progression of our founding ideals, or was it a step backward? Was Congress ...
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Relations between slave and non-slave States
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 kept an uneasy alliance for many years between the North and South. However, when California became a state further compromise had to be created. The Democrat ...
Map suggesting how the U.S. could be split into four different regions sparks UPROAR online - as critics rail against the placement of ONE specific state
In truth, the Missouri Compromise was the name of legislation from 1820 that approved the region's request for statehood as a ...
Memory lane
After this election, widely claimed to be the most important in U. S. history, upon which the fate of democracy itself rests, ...
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Knowing the Presidents: James Monroe
Major Acts: James Monroe approved the acquisition of Florida from Spain in 1819. Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise in 1820, which allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as ...
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Attitudes to slavery - North and South
In 1820 the Missouri Compromise was passed to sort out this issue. By 1819, the US was made up of 22 states - evenly split between Slave States and Free States. In November 1819, Missouri ...
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A Dredful Parallel to Dobbs
The ruling purported to invalidate the Missouri Compromise of 1820. It was touted by the aging, Pennsylvania-born Democrat in the White House as a kind of super-precedent settling the question of ...
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Knowing the Presidents: Franklin Pierce
Major Acts: The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery within their borders, nullified the Missouri ...
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The Missouri Compromise
This allowed the Missouri Compromise to become possible, as Missouri and Maine could then be accepted without upsetting the Senate's balance between free and slave states. The compromise admitted ...