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True or False One goal of both the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 was to keep the Union together?

True


Who was called the the great compromiser they also put together the Missouri compromise?

Henry Clay


What other state was admitted as a Slave state when Maine was admitted as a Free State?

Missouri. Maine and Missouri came into the union together under the Missouri Compromise.


The Missouri Compromise was introduced by?

Henry clay put it together


What Millard Fillmore are Characteristics?

he failed to keep the whig party together and was in favor of the slave issue missouri compromise


How did US Senator Stephen A Douglas characterize the Missouri Compromise of 1850?

Senator Stephen A. Douglas put forth the argument that if the Missouri Compromise of 1850 really was a compromise, it had to put forward a consistent principle. If it did not then it was not a compromise, but instead a modus vivendi arrangement. The main problem of this characterization is that Douglas was asking a rhetorical question. Douglas was the one to know inasmuch as he helped put it together.


What legislation held out the hope of pairing the admission of free slave states together would quiet the dispute over the expansion of slavery?

All the Compromises were issued with this aim - the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the last-minute Crittenden Compromise.


What legislation held out the hope that pairing the admission of free and slaves states together would quiet the dispute over the expansion of slavery?

All the Compromises were issued with this aim - the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the last-minute Crittenden Compromise.


What legislation held out the hope that pairing the admission of free and slave states together would quiet the dispute over the expansion of slavery?

All the Compromises were issued with this aim - the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the last-minute Crittenden Compromise.


What was the Missouri comprimise?

The Missouri Compromise was an attempt to maintain the balance of power between the North and South when Missouri petitioned for statehood. The Compromise allowed Missouri, a slave state, and Maine, a free state, in together thereby maintaining equality between the two sides. However, the Compromise went on to prohibit slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase that was north of latitude 36-30N.The Missouri Compromise that was passed in 1820 was between the pro slavery and anti slavery factions in the United States Congress.


What was Henry Clay's primary purpose in offering the Compromise of 1850?

Henry Clay's primary purpose in offering the compromise of 1850 was to keep the Union together.


What state was admitted as a free state according to the Missouri compromise?

In 1820, the Missouri Compromise, was put together by Speaker of the House of Representatives, Henry Clay. The result was that Missouri enter the US as a slave state and to keep an even balance of free and slave states, the northeast section of Massachusetts was cut off to form the free state of Maine.