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Following the acquisition of the enormous Louisiana Purchase, there was a big debate about which parts would be slave country and which parts would be free soil.
The Missouri Compromise was an attempt to simplify the issue by setting a single parallel (line of latitude), and ruling that slavery would be illegal everywhere North of this line, however far West it extended. The line was the Southern border of Missouri, and if North and South would agree on this, then Missouri could be admitted as a slave-state.
The Compromise lasted quite well until more extensive new terrirories were acquired from Mexico in 1848.
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What were the issues with the Missouri Compromise?
whether or not to become a free state
What considedrations prompted the Missouri compromise and why did it fail?
why was the Missouri compromise written?
What was the time period of the Missouri compromise?
The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820.
Who proposed the Missouri compromise?
Jefferson Davis proposed the Missouri compromise.
What statesmen was the most instrumental in The Missouri Compromise?
Thomas Jefferson started the Missouri Compromise
What were the issues with the Missouri Compromise?
whether or not to become a free state
Henry clay's compromise became known as what?
The Missouri Compromise The Compromise of 1850 The Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is the correct chronological order of these eventsCompromise of 1850, Three-Fifths Compromise, Missouri Compromise,Emancipation Proclamation?
Three-Fifths Compromise, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Emancipation Proclamation
How can you make a sentence with Missouri Compromise?
The Missouri Compromise was done in 1820. The Missouri Compromise decided North and South Power.
The question about Missouri's admission to the Union and how it was solved was called the?
Missouri compromise
What considedrations prompted the Missouri compromise and why did it fail?
why was the Missouri compromise written?
What was the time period of the Missouri compromise?
The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820.
What compromise lead to the civil war?
the Missouri compromise, the 3/5 compromise, and the compromise of 1850 no it was thethe Missouri compromise, the 3/5 compromise, and the compromise of 1850
What were the 3 political issues during the Era of Good Feelings?
Missouri Compromise Tariff of Abominations Internal Improvements
Were did the Missouri compromise happen?
missouri missouri
Henry Clays compromise became known as?
The Maine, Missouri, Clay's, or Henry's compromise
The Missouri compromise determined that Missouri could become a state if?
the Missouri compromise determined that Missouri could become a state if
