There were two Missouri Compromises. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was primarily the work of the House Speaker Henry Clay of Kentucky. This agreement kept the balance of slave states and free states even. Missouri entered the Union as a slave state and the newly created state of Maine entered as a free sate. In 1850 there was the need of another compromise to keep the Union intact and conflict free. The 1850 Compromise allowed California to enter the Union as a free state; and
* A tougher fugitive slave act was created;
* Texas agreed to give up certain territorial claims;
* The federal government would assume the public debt of Texas; and
* The new Utah and New Mexico territories would allow voters to determine its slave or no slave policies.
In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act would make popular sovereignty the new slave policy. This made the 1850 compromise almost irrelevant.
Zachary Taylor was twelfth President from 1849-1850, during the time the compromise of 1850 was signed
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Jefferson Davis proposed the Missouri compromise.
Henry Clay
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.
why was the Missouri compromise written?
The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820.
Jefferson Davis proposed the Missouri compromise.
crittenden compromise
The Kansas-Nebraska Act prompted revision of the Missouri Compromise.
Henry Clay
He proposed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Henry Clay
John Nelson has written: 'A discourse on the proposed repeal of the Missouri compromise' -- subject(s): Missouri compromise, Slavery
Missouri would be admitted to the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
The Missouri Compromise, passed in 1820, admitted Missouri to the ... This time, Speaker of the House Henry Clay proposed that Congress ...
The name for the compromise proposed by Henry Clay for the admission of Missouri to the United States was the Missouri Compromise. It said that Missouri would be admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It kept the balance of power in the Senate between the slave states and free states. It also called for slavery to be banned from the Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36˚ 30', Missouri's southern border.
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 The Compromise of 1850 The Kansas-Nebraska Act.