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was florida a state in 1820
In 1820, politicians debated the question of whether slavery would be legal in the western territories. The Missouri Compromise permitted slavery in the new state of Missouri and the Arkansas Territory but it was barred everywhere west and north of Missouri.
Missouri, Arkansas, Flordia, and Texas
Territories
There were five territories added after the Revolutionary War. They were Louisiana, Texas, Oregon, Florida, and California,
was florida a state in 1820
There were 16 free states
1820
Maine
Missouri itself.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820.
The 1820 Missouri Compromise.
There were two Missouri compromises. The one in 1820 determined the slave/free status of new states within the territory acquired from France in the Louisiana Purchase. The second one, the Compromise of 1850 did the same thing for the territories acquired from Mexico after the Mexican war.
It is: 1820
It became the 23rd US State on 15 March 1820.
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