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  2. Missouri Compromise - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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.

  5. Era of Good Feelings - Wikipedia

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    The Missouri Crisis in 1820 made the explosive political conflict between slave and free soil open and explicit. [43] Only through the adroit handling of the legislation by Speaker of the House Henry Clay was a settlement reached and disunion avoided.

  6. 1820 United States presidential election in Missouri - Wikipedia

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    This debate would later be overshadowed with issues regarding the expansion of slavery out west, and whether Missouri would be a free or slave state. 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 ...

  7. List of landmark African-American legislation - Wikipedia

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    Missouri Compromise (1820) - prohibited slavery north of parallel 36°30′ north, with the exception of Missouri, but allowed its continuation in the South. Resulted in the sectional factionalism between slave states and free states which lead to the American Civil War and the continuation of slavery in the South.

  8. Parallel 36°30′ north - Wikipedia

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    Territorial evolution of the United States; The Mason–Dixon line – another line linked to the slave-free division in the U.S. Royal Colonial Boundary of 1665 – the border between the Colony of Virginia and the Province of Carolina that follows the parallel 36°30′ north latitude that came to be associated with the Missouri Compromise of ...

  9. Elijah Parish Lovejoy - Wikipedia

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    Elijah Parish Lovejoy (November 9, 1802 – November 7, 1837) was an American Presbyterian minister, journalist, newspaper editor, and abolitionist. After his murder by a mob, he became a martyr to the abolitionist cause opposing slavery in the United States. [1] He was also hailed as a defender of free speech and freedom of the press. [1] [2] [3]