What Was the Missouri Compromise?: And Other Questions About the Struggle over Slavery

Lanier, Wendy

ISBN 10: 0761353313 ISBN 13: 9780761353317

Casa editrice: Lerner Pub Group, 2012

Riassunto

When the Missouri Territory applied for statehood in 1818, the United States had an equal number of free states and slave states. The territory's leaders wanted Missouri to be a slave state. But that would have destroyed the balance of representation in Congress. A heated debate broke out. The southern representatives and Missouri's leaders thought states should be able to decide the slavery question for themselves. Northern members of Congress thought otherwise. Would the Union split apart over the question of slavery? The Missouri Compromise settled the argument and saved the Union—temporarily.

So why was the Missouri Compromise of 1820 so controversial?
Who was the great compromiser?
What were the terms of the Missouri Compromise?

Discover the facts about one of the most debated compromises in U.S. history.

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Product Description

In 1820 the U.S. Congress passed an act known as the Missouri Compromise. The act represented a compromise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in Congress. In 1818 Missouri asked to be admitted to the Union as a slave state. But the Senate at the time was evenly divided between pro-slavery and anti-slavery states. Neither side wanted to become the minority. As a compromise, Missouri was admitted as a slave state while Maine was admitted as a free state. As part of the act, Congress also set the 36th parallel as the line above which slavery could not spread. The Missouri Compromise quieted the question of slavery in new states at the time, but it showed the deepening divide between the North and South on the overall issue

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Lerner Pub Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0761353313
• ISBN 13: 9780761353317
• Rilegatura: Rilegatura all'americana
• Numero di pagine: 48
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