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The Compromise of 1850 was a series of bills aimed at resolving the territorial and slavery controversies arising from the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). There were five laws that balanced the in...
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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.
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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.
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The Missouri Compromise "A Balance of Power" March 3, 182 ... Through the efforts of Henry Clay, "the great pacificator," a compromise was finally reached on March 3, 1820, after Maine petitioned Congress for statehood.
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Missouri Compromise An agreement between the North and the South and passed by Congress in 1820 that allowed Missouri to be admitted as the 24th state ... 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.
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The full importance of the Missouri Compromise appears only in the light of the history of the generation following. For the moment it seemed to have settled the controversy over slavery and thwarted the formation of new political parties on that issue.
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The eighth section of the Missouri act of March 6, 1820, ... Three constitutional questions -- two of them of cardinal importance -- had been discussed. Men had fought shy of all three for the moment, and for this reason the originators of the compromise claimed that they had postponed the decision to the Greek kalends.
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Transcript of Missouri Compromise (1820); 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.
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