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	Missouri Compromise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery in the Unorganized territory of the Great Plains (dark green) and permitted it in Missouri (yellow) and the Arkansas Territory (blue).
		The Missouri Compromise, also called the Compromise of 1820, was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories.
		Before the bill was returned to the House, a second amendment was adopted on the motion of Jesse B. Thomas of Illinois, excluding slavery from the Missouri Territory north of 36°30' (the southern boundary of Missouri), except within the limits of the proposed state of Missouri.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Missouri_Compromise (774 words)

	Missouri Compromise - LoveToKnow 1911
		MISSOURI COMPROMISE, an agreement (1820) between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the public territories.
		Before the bill was returned to the house a second amendment was adopted on the motion of J. Thomas (1777-1850) of Illinois, excluding slavery from the "Louisiana Purchase" north of 36° 30' (the southern boundary of Missouri), except within the limits of the proposed state of Missouri.
		When the question of the final admission of Missouri came up during the session of1820-1821the struggle was revived over a clause in the new constitution (1820) requiring the exclusion of free negroes and mulattoes from the state.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Missouri_Compromise (563 words)

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	Missouri Compromise - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		MISSOURI COMPROMISE [Missouri Compromise] 1820-21, measures passed by the U.S. Congress to end the first of a series of crises concerning the extension of slavery.
		The House rejected this compromise bill, but after a conference committee of members of both houses was appointed, the bills were treated separately, and in Mar., 1820, Maine was made a state and Missouri was authorized to adopt a constitution having no restrictions on slavery.
		Not until the Missouri legislature pledged that nothing in its constitution would be interpreted to abridge the rights of citizens of the United States was the charter approved and Missouri admitted to the Union (Aug., 1821).
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-missrc1omp.html (546 words)

	missouri compromise information on the missouri compromise of 1820
		The Missouri Compromise, also called the Missouri Compromise of 1820, was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories.
		A bill to enable the people of Missouri Territory to draft a constitution and form a government preliminary to admission into the Union came before the House of Representatives in Committee of the Whole, on the February 13, 1819 was part of the Missouri Compromise.
		The missouri compromise of 1820 was a very important piece of american history and of the american civil war.
	www.civilwar-history.com /Missouri-Compromise.aspx (593 words)

	The Missouri Compromise by James Blaine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The "Missouri question," as it was popularly termed, formally appeared in Congress in the month of December, 1818; tho during the preceding session petitions for a state government had been received from the inhabitants of the territory.
		A separate bill was passed, permitting Missouri to form a constitution preparatory to her admission, subject to the compromise, which, indeed, formed one section of the enabling Act.
		It was in this compromises not in the one of the preceding session, that Mr.
	www.multied.com /documents/Miscompromise.html (1472 words)

	Missouri Compromise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Missouri Compromise was the first compromise that dealt with the issue of whether or not to allow slavery to spread into the territories of the United States.
		The second part of the compromise was that Missouri would be allowed into the Union as a slave state and Maine would be admitted into the Union as as a free state.
		The Missouri Compromise settled the dispute of slavery temporarily by pleasing both sides of the issue.
	pt3.sbu.edu /VFTs/CivilWar/missouri_compromise.htm (173 words)

	Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820)
		Bill permitting Missouri to draw up a state constitution to be admitted to the Union comes to the floor of the House.
		House member James Tallmadge of New York presents an amendment to the Missouri statehood bill requiring Missouri to halt the further introduction of slaves to the terrotory and to provide for the gradual emancipation of the slaves already there.
		Missouri Compromise moves out of conference committee and to the floor of the House and Senate for debate.
	blueandgraytrail.com /event/Missouri_Compromise_(Compromise_of_1820) (734 words)

	Missouri Comprise, 1820 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		To receive Missouri with a constitution permitting slavery would have upset the balance in favor of the South in the Senate, though not in the House, where the difference in population gave Northerners 105 votes to the Southerners 81.
		In a move to limit slavery in Missouri and in the West, on February 13, 1819 New York Rep. James Tallmadge proposed an amendment to exclude slavery from the territory, which passed in the House but was blocked by Southern legislators in the Senate.
		Through fall the Missouri issue dominated national politics, hut the apparent stalemate broke when Maine separated from Massachusetts in 1819 and petitioned for admission to the Union as a free state.
	www.civilwarhome.com /missouricompromise.htm (352 words)

	Africans in America/Part 3/Missouri Compromise
		The 1819 application for statehood by the Missouri Territory sparked a bitter debate in Congress over the issue of slavery in the new territories that had been created as a result of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
		The issue was resolved with a two-part compromise.
		The northern part of Massachusetts became Maine and was admitted to the Union as a free state at the same time that Missouri was admitted as a slave state, thereby maintaining a balance of 12 slave and 12 free states.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part3/3h511.html (278 words)

	Missouri Compromise: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)
		In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
		In 1854, the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
		Three years later the Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision, which ruled that Congress did not have the authority to prohibit slavery in the territories.
	www.loc.gov /rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Missouri.html (572 words)

	Missouri Compromise, 1820
		In 1820, Missouri was allowed to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, thus keeping the balance of free and slave states equal in Congress.
		The remaining portion of Louisiana Purchase Territory north of the 3 30' line was deemed to be "forever free of slavery." This arrangement became known as the "Missouri Compromise" and is significant for its use as a legal argument in slave freedom suits.
		An Act to authorize the people of the Missouri territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories.
	www.classbrain.com /artteenst/publish/article_128.shtml (367 words)

	American Experience \| The Time of the Lincolns \| Partisan Politics
		When Missouri sought statehood in 1819, the question of whether it would be admitted to the Union as a slave or free state set off a fierce sectional debate between Northern and Southern legislators.
		In addition, the compromise outlawed the slave trade (not slavery) in the District of Columbia while it enacted a stricter fugitive slave law to facilitate the retrieval of slaves who had run away to the North.
		Circumventing this problem, the Kansas-Nebraska Act essentially overrode the Missouri Compromise and allowed slavery to spread into the territory only by "popular sovereignty." The result was a frenzied scramble of pro- and anti-slavery settlers into the area, and violent confrontations between the two groups.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/lincolns/politics/es_shift.html (434 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: American History (1994): Chapter Six: A Divided Nation (7/15)
		Under terms of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the entire region was closed to slavery.
		Douglas argued that the Compromise of 1850, which left Utah and New Mexico free to resolve the slavery issue for themselves, superseded the Missouri Compromise.
		Scott was a Missouri slave who, some 20 years earlier, had been taken by his master to live in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory, where slavery had been banned by the Northwest Ordinance.
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	EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
		Lesson One—An Early Threat of Secession: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Nullification Crisis.
		So “to form a more perfect union” in 1787, certain compromises were made in the Constitution regarding slavery in hopes that they would eventually be able to wean themselves off the “peculiar institution.” This settled the slavery controversy for the first few decades of the American republic.
		In addition to Maine's admission in 1820 as a free state and Missouri's eventual admission as a slave state (in 1821), Illinois Senator Jesse B. Thomas suggested that in the balance of the Louisiana Territory north of the 36º30' parallel (which ran along Missouri's southern border) slavery would be prohibited forever.
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	Free Essay The Missouri Compromise
		One of the compromises was the Missouri Compromise, which made Maine, a free state, and Missouri, a slave state, excluded slavery from Louisiana Territory and everything above the 36 30-north latitude.
		The Compromise included admitting California as a free state and interstate slave trade to be abolished, which went in favor of the North.
		The compromises seemed to have settled the issue of slavery but it was just putting back the problem.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=26773 (908 words)

	Compromise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Settlers came largely from the South, and it was expected that Missouri would be a slave state.
		The House rejected this compromise bill, but after a conference committee of members of both houses was appointed, the bills were treated separately, and in March, 1820, Maine was made a state and Missouri was authorized to adopt a constitution having no restrictions on slavery.
		However, the provision in the Missouri constitution barring the immigration of free fls to the state was objectionable to many Northern Congressmen, and necessitated another congressional compromise.
	www.us-civilwar.com /compromise.htm (375 words)

	usnews.com: The People's Vote: Missouri Compromise (1820)
		With the purchase of the Louisiana Territory and the application of Missouri for statehood, the long-standing balance between the number of slave states and the number of free states would be changed.
		Congress adopted this legislation and admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time, so that the balance between slave and free states in the nation would remain equal.
		The Missouri compromise also proposed that slavery be prohibited above the 36º 30´ latitude line in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/documents/docpages/document_page22.htm (176 words)

	The Missouri Compromise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Missouri wanted to be admitted as a slave state, but abolitionists feared that slavery would continue to expand.
		If Missouri was slave, slave states would outnumber free states by one, which would give them more power in the Senate.
		Finally, it was admitted along with Maine as a free state in the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which also banned slavery beyond the 36º30’ parallel in the rest of the Louisiana Territory.
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	1820/Missouri Compromise; shelby county ohio historical society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1820, the Missouri compromise took effect, allowing Missouri to be admitted to the Union as a slave state, but also prohibiting slavery north of a line 36 degrees, 30 minutes.
		The compromise in Congress; pitted 11 non-slave states against 11 slave states, with agreement coming only when it was determined that Maine would enter the Union (March 15, 1820) as a non-slave state and Missouri (August 10, 1821) as a slave state, thus maintaining a like number of non-slave and slave states.
		It would be repealed later by the Stephen A. Douglas’ Kansas-Nebraska bill in 1854, which reopened the issue of slavery in the territories, just prior to the advent of the Civil War.
	www.shelbycountyhistory.org /schs/blackhistory/1820missouricom.htm (165 words)

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		The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was perhaps the first event to spark nationwide interest and agitation over the issue of slavery and undoubtedly signified the beginning of North-South conflicts regarding the peculiar, yet lawful institution of slavery and its expansion into the West.
		Up until Missouri’s admission for statehood in 1820, the US Congress had enjoyed a perfect balance of free states and slave states with a total of twenty-two.
		Although slavery was lawful in Missouri, James Tallmadge, a congressman from New York, proposed an amendment that would prohibit any more slaves in the state and mandated that children born after the admission of Missouri would gain their freedom at the age of 25.
	home.gwu.edu /~adog/MissouriCompromise.htm (326 words)

	Ideological Map
		The Compromise allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and banned slavery in territories north of 36°30' latitude.
		The Compromise was passed in the House of Representatives by two key votes, one of which, shown here, allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state, the other banned slavery in the territories.
		Districts shown in red provided the pro-slavery on admission of Missouri, anti-slavery on slavery in new territories votes necessary to the Compromise.
	www.princeton.edu /~voteview/xtabmap.html (181 words)

	The Compromise of 1850 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The settlers from Missouri wanted it to be a slave state.
		The compromise allowed Missouri to come into the Union as a slave state and Maine would be a free state.
		In this compromise Northern California entered the Union as a free state.
	www.mce.k12tn.net /civil_war/compromise_of_1850.htm (357 words)

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