Missouri Compromise

noun

, U.S. History.

1. an act of Congress (1820) by which Missouri was admitted as a Slave State, Maine as a Free State, and slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase north of latitude 36°30′N, except for Missouri.

Missouri Compromise

1. A settlement of a dispute between slave and free states, contained in several laws passed during 1820 and 1821. Northern legislators had tried to prohibit slavery in Missouri , which was then applying for statehood. The Missouri Compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, and prohibited slavery in territory that later became Kansas and Nebraska . In 1857, in the Dred Scott decision , the Supreme Court declared the compromise unconstitutional.

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Clay engineered the morally indefensible Missouri Compromise.

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President Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise expressing his approval of this bill.

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Thus began the agitation which led to the abrogation of the Missouri Compromise.

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In the first sortie the south got the Missouri compromise repealed.

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Missouri Compromise, and rise therefrom of geographical parties.

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The proposed admission of California was not affected by the Missouri Compromise.

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