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  2. Missouri Compromise - Wikipedia

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    The Missouri Compromise [a] (also known as the Compromise of 1820) ... In addition, there was a bill in passage through the House (January 3, 1820) ...

  3. Kansas–Nebraska Act - Wikipedia

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    Missouri Senator David Atchison announced that he would support the Nebraska proposal only if slavery were to be permitted. While the bill was silent on this issue, slavery would have been prohibited under the Missouri Compromise in the territory north of 36°30' latitude and west of the Mississippi River. Other Southern senators were as ...

  4. 16th United States Congress - Wikipedia

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    Tallmadge Amendment would allow Missouri into the Union as a slave state, but would also implement gradual emancipation in Missouri. The amendment passed the House of Representatives, but not the Senate. The Tallmadge Amendment led to the passage of the Missouri Compromise.

  5. Henry Clay - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Bleeding Kansas - Wikipedia

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    In Kansas, however, the assumption of legal slavery underestimated abolitionist resistance to the repeal of the long-standing Missouri Compromise. Southerners saw the passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Act as an emboldening victory; Northerners considered it an outrageous defeat.

  7. Missouri legislators reach redistricting compromise - AOL

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    The Missouri state Senate on Thursday reached a compromise on new congressional district map lines, ending a deep division among Republicans that created a monthlong impasse in one of the final ...

  8. Tallmadge Amendment - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Missouri votes to legalize recreational weed for adults with ...

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    Missourians voted yes on Amendment 3, which means you’ll be able to head to the dispensaries soon, and nonviolent weed charges will be cleared from criminal records throughout the state.