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  2. Parallel 36°30′ north - Wikipedia

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    The parallel 36°30′ north is a circle of latitude that is 36 1 ⁄ 2 degrees north of the equator of the Earth. This parallel of latitude is particularly significant in the history of the United States as the line of the Missouri Compromise , which was used to divide the prospective slave and free states west of the Mississippi River , with ...

  3. Missouri Compromise - Wikipedia

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    Senator Jesse B. Thomas of Illinois added a compromise proviso that excluded slavery from all remaining lands of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36° 30' parallel. The combined measures passed the Senate, only to be voted down in the House by Northern representatives who held out for a free Missouri.

  4. Compromise of 1850 - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Mason–Dixon line - Wikipedia

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    The Missouri Compromise line (Parallel 36°30′ north) had a much clearer geographic connection to slavery in the United States leading up to the Civil War. [ 38 ] In popular culture

  6. 36th parallel north - Wikipedia

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    The 36th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 36 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America and the Atlantic Ocean. In the ancient Mediterranean world, its role for navigation and geography was similar to that played by the Equator today. [1]

  7. Dred Scott - Wikipedia

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    One of Eliza's sons died young, but the other married and has descendants, some of whom still live in St. Louis as of 2023, [25] including Lynne M. Jackson, Scott's great-great-granddaughter, who led the successful effort to install a new towering memorial at Dred Scott's grave at Calvary Cemetery on September 30, 2023. [18]

  8. Beer City, Oklahoma - Wikipedia

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    Beer City was founded in 1888 in No Man's Land. [3] No Man's Land was created when Texas sought to enter the Union in 1845 as a slave state.Federal law in the United States at the time, based on the Missouri Compromise, prohibited slavery north of 36°30' parallel north.

  9. Treaty of Lochaber - Wikipedia

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    The North Carolina-Virginia border at this time was along the 36° 30' parallel in present-day Tennessee, because both colonies believed their charters extended to the west. [4] In this treaty, the Cherokee surrendered their rights to most land in present-day southern West Virginia not included in the Treaty of Hard Labour in October 1768.