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It admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state and declared a policy of prohibiting slavery in the remaining Louisiana Purchase lands north of the 36°30′ parallel. [1] The 16th United States Congress passed the legislation on March 3, 1820, and President James Monroe signed it on March 6, 1820. [2]
The Extension of the Missouri Compromise line was proposed by failed amendments to the Wilmot Proviso by William W. Wick and then Stephen Douglas to extend the Missouri Compromise line (36°30' parallel north) west to the Pacific (south of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California) to allow the possibility of slavery in most of present-day New Mexico and ...
The parallel 36°30′ then forms the rest of the boundary between Missouri and Arkansas. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 established the latitude 36°30′ as the northern limit for slavery to be legal in the territories of the west. As part of this compromise, Maine (formerly a part of Massachusetts) was admitted as a
Iowa was not a state until December 1846 and Texas's border was not defined this way until 1850.) William W. Wick, Democrat of Indiana, attempted to eliminate total restriction of slavery by proposing an amendment that the Missouri Compromise line of latitude 36°30' simply be extended west to the Pacific. This was voted down 89–54.
The compromise allowed Maine to be admitted to the Union as a free state at the same time that Missouri was admitted as a slave state. The Compromise also banned slavery in the Louisiana Purchase territory north and west of the state of Missouri along parallel 36°30′ north.
Dan Seals sang "Mason Dixon line" and the song symbolically references the line. [52] GZA references the "Mason-Dixon Line" in the closing words of his feature verse on Raekwon's song "Guillotine (Swords)" from his debut 1995 album Only Built 4 Cuban Linx. [53] Tom Lehrer references the Mason–Dixon line in his song "I Wanna Go Back to Dixie ...
After a challenge by Springfield's Eden Village and others, Missouri's Supreme Court decided the bill contained too many unrelated provisions. MO Supreme Court strikes down bill banning homeless ...
The first constitution was written by Constitutional Convention in 1820 in only 38 days, and was adopted on July 19, 1820. [2] [3] One of the results of the Missouri Compromise, Missouri was initially admitted to the Union as a slave state, and the constitution specifically excluded "free negroes and mulattoes" from the state.