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Dr. Brian Purnell, a professor of Africana Studies and US history at Bowdoin College, writes in Portland Magazine, "Martin Kinsley, Joshua Cushman, Ezekiel Whitman, Enoch Lincoln, and James Parker—wanted to prohibit slavery's spread into new territories. In 1820, they voted against the Missouri Compromise and against Maine's independence.
A History of the United States: Federalists and Republicans, 1789-1815. University Press of America. ISBN 9780819189158. Collier, Christopher. Building a new nation : the Federalist era, 1789-1803 (1999) for middle schools; Finkelman, Paul, ed. (2001). Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. ISBN 9780684804989.
Texas had been admitted to the United States as a slave state, yet Texas claimed territory north of the 36°30' demarcation line for slavery set by the Missouri Compromise. According to the annexation agreement, if Texas were to be subdivided into multiple states, those north of the compromise line would become free states.
Kansas Territory was established on May 30, 1854, by the Kansas–Nebraska Act.This act established both the Nebraska Territory and Kansas Territory. The most momentous provision of the Act in effect repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and allowed the settlers of Kansas Territory to determine by popular sovereignty whether Kansas would be a free state or a slave state.
Slavery was a divisive issue in the United States. It was a major issue during the writing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787, the subject of political crises in the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 and was the primary cause of the American Civil War in 1861. Just before the Civil War, there were 19 free states and 15 slave ...
The Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery in the Unorganized Territory (dark green) and permitted it in Missouri (yellow). The Platte Purchase region (highlighted in red). The Platte Purchase was a land acquisition in 1836 by the United States government from American Indian tribes of the region.
November 17, 1800 The Congress of the United States moved to Washington, now built and ready to be the capital. [25] This was two weeks before the December 1 date established in the Residence Act; President John Adams urged Congress to move early in hopes of securing enough Southern votes to be re-elected, though this failed. [103] January 1, 1801
Peck (10 US 87 1810) marks first time U.S. Supreme Court invalidates a state legislative act; 1811 – First Bank of the United States charter expires; April 20, 1812 – Vice President Clinton dies; 1812 – War of 1812, an offshoot of the Napoleonic Wars, begins; 1812 – Daniel Webster elected to the United States Congress