Latitude 36, 30
It would allow slavery to spread north of the line established by the Missouri compromise. - Novanet
36 degrees 30 minutes
It would allow slavery to spread north of the line established by the Missouri compromise. - Novanet
Perhaps by dividing California into North and South, along the line of the Missouri Compromise. I wonder if this was ever suggested.
It would allow slavery to spread north of the line established by the Missouri compromise. - Novanet
Everywhere West of Missouri. The line of latitude at Missouri's Southern border was taken as the dividing line. North of that line, slavery was illegal. South of it, slavery could be practised.
The Missouri Compromise was nullified by the new Compromise of 1850 - caused by the admission of California, which extended a long way on either side of the Missouri line, and rendered it obsolete.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
It would allow slavery to spread north of the line established by the Missouri compromise. - Novanet
The northerners protests DouglasÕs plan to repeal the Missouri Compromise because it would have made slavery legal in the northern territories. The Missouri Compromise had outlawed slavery in territories and new states above the Missouri Compromise line.
The Missouri Compromise itself (1820). Also the very last compromise attempted before the outbreak of war (Crittenden) proposed that the Missouri Line could be re-established and extended all the way to the Pacific. It was this compromise that Lincoln rejected, because it could have allowed some extension of slavery.
The Missouri Compromise provided that no Slave State could be established to the north of a line represented by the parallel 36° 30' coincident with the Southern boundary of Missouri.