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  2. Missouri Compromise - Wikipedia

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    Maine was admitted in 1820, [101] and Missouri in 1821, [102] The trend of admitting a new free or slave state to balance the status of previous ones would continue up until the Compromise of 1850. The next state to be admitted would be Arkansas (slave state) in 1836, quickly followed by Michigan (free state) in 1837.

  3. Platte Purchase - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Parallel 36°30′ north - Wikipedia

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    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

  5. Slave states and free states - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. File:Missouri Compromise Line.svg - Wikipedia

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    Image won't thumbnail anymore. Recreated using File:Blank US map.svg. 16:40, 1 October 2009: 927 × 588 (233 KB) JWB {{Information |Description=United States secession map of 1865, plus Missouri Compromise Line.

  7. 1820 United States presidential election in Missouri - Wikipedia

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    Eventually, the Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to be a slave state, however, they could not admit any more states above a line marked by the new Arkansaw Territory. [a] On March 6, 1820, Congress passed a law directing Missouri to hold a convention to form a constitution and a state government. This law stated that "…the said state ...

  8. 1820 in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Missouri Territory - Wikipedia

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    The Missouri Territory (1812–1821), formerly the Louisiana Territory (1804–1812), and earlier the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 from the First French Empire of Emperor Napoleon I / Napoleon Bonaparte, from Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1814 map. The Territory of Missouri was an organized incorporated territory of the United States ...