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The Missouri Compromise [a] (also known as the Compromise of 1820) was federal legislation of the United States that balanced the desires of northern states to prevent the expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states to expand it.
March 3 & 6 – Slavery in the United States: The Missouri Compromise becomes law. March 15 – Maine is admitted as the 23rd U.S. state (see History of Maine). April 24 – The Land Act of 1820 reduces the price of land in the Northwest Territory and Missouri Territory encouraging Americans to settle in the west.
In 1820, the Missouri Compromise was passed without the Tallmadge Amendment. The Compromise attempted to appease both sides of the debate by admitting Missouri as a slave state in exchange for the admission of Maine as a free state and by the complete prohibition of slavery in all of the remaining Louisiana Purchase territory north of the 36 ...
1820: The U.S. slave population according to the 1820 United States census is 1,538,000. [82] Speaker of the House Henry Clay of Kentucky proposes the Missouri Compromise to break the Congressional deadlock over Missouri's admission to the Union. [83]
In 1820 he helped bring an end to a sectional crisis over slavery by leading the passage of the Missouri Compromise. Clay finished with the fourth-most electoral votes in the multi-candidate 1824-1825 presidential election and used his position as speaker to help John Quincy Adams win the contingent election held to select the president.
Contested election, served until January 12, 1820 Rollin C. Mallary (DR) Seated January 13, 1820 Virginia 20th: James Johnson (DR) Resigned February 1, 1820 John C. Gray (DR) Seated November 13, 1820 Virginia 10th: George F. Strother (DR) Resigned February 10, 1820 Thomas L. Moore (DR) Seated November 13, 1820 Kentucky 6th: David Walker (DR ...
Massachusetts was entitled to 22 electoral votes in 1816, but cast only 15 in 1820 because of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which made the region of Maine, long part of Massachusetts, a free state to balance the pending admission of slave state Missouri. In addition, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Mississippi also cast one fewer electoral vote ...
Missouri Compromise (1820) Tariff of 1828; Nat Turner's Rebellion (1831) Nullification crisis (1832–33) Abolition of slavery in the British Empire (1834) Texas Revolution (1835–36) United States v. Crandall (1836) Gag rule (1836–44) Commonwealth v. Aves (1836) Murder of Elijah Lovejoy (1837) Burning of Pennsylvania Hall (1838) American ...