The admission of Missouri, which came from lands obtained through the Louisiana Purchase and lay outside the Old Northwest, added to their fears of the expansion of slavery. Representative Jame Tallmadge, Jr.
The first prohibited any further importation of slaves into Missouri; the second required gradual emancipation for the slaves already there. The House passed his amendments, along strictly regional voting lines, but the Senate, where representation of free and slaveholding states were balanced, rejected it.
Congressional debates on the issue raged for a year until the District of Maine, originally part of Massachusetts, sought statehood. Henry Clay of Kentucky, the Speaker of the House, maintained that if Maine were to be admitted, then Missouri should be, too.
From this came the notion that states be admitted in pairs, one slave and one free. Senator Jesse B. Thomas of Illinois proposed an amendment allowing slavery below the parallel 36 degrees, 30 minutes in the vast Louisiana Purchase territory, but prohibiting it above that line. That parallel was chosen because it ran approximately along the southern border of Missouri.
Though the compromise measure quelled the immediate divisiveness engendered by the Missouri question, it intensified the larger regional conflict between North and South.
It served notice to the North that Southerners not only did not intend for slavery to end, they wanted to expand its presence. Located on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, the state was an important hub of transportation and commerce in early America, and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis is a The Compromise of was an informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the presidential election and marked the end of the Reconstruction era.
Immediately after the presidential election of , it Unlike many anti-slavery activists, he was not a pacifist and believed in aggressive action against slaveholders and any government officials who enabled them. An entrepreneur who ran In August , a U. Aboard the Spanish ship were a group of Africans who had been captured and sold illegally as slaves in Cuba.
The enslaved Africans then revolted at sea and won control of the In October , the U. Originally part of Virginia, Harpers Ferry is located in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia near the convergence of the Live TV.
While it effectively settled the question of slavery from to , its repeal began the sectarian conflict that eventually brought the nation into the Civil War. Popular sovereignty - a doctrine, held chiefly by slave owners, that the people living in a territory should be free of federal interference in determining domestic policy, especially with respect to slavery. Please Note: You are viewing a legacy website that is no longer being supported.
For Educators. Its repeal would bring about conflict that would lead to the Civil War. Compromise Highlights Missouri applied for statehood on December 18, This created a problem because the Northern states refused to allow another slave state to join the Union.
In , Maine applied for statehood. Then a compromise developed: Maine could join as a free state to balance out Missouri joining as a slave state. I have been among the most sanguine in believing that our Union would be of long duration. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. At the time, the Missouri Compromise was seen as a critical agreement to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, and keep the Union intact.
On February 16, , the Senate agreed to consider the admission of Maine and Missouri as states combined in one bill. But the House rejected the Senate bill and voted to admit Missouri without slavery.
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