Missouri+Compromise+(1820)

=**The Missouri Compromise**= __What was it?__ The Missouri Compromise was an an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in the U.S. Congress. It was mainly concerned with the regulation of slavery in the western territories. In February 1819, New York Representative James Tallmadge proposed an amendment to ban slavery in Missouri even though there were more than 2,000 slaves living there. The country was again confronted with the issue of the spread of slavery into new territories and states. Unfortunately, the South's economy was heavily dependent upon black slavery, and 200 years of living with the institution had made it an integral part of Southern life and economy. The South demanded that the North recognize its right to have slaves as secured in the Constitution. The dilemma finally found an end when Henry Clay, "the great pacificator," came up with a compromise on March 3, 1820, after Maine petitioned Congress for statehood. Both states were admitted, a free Maine and a slave Missouri. In an attempt to address the issue of the further spread of slavery, however, the Missouri Compromise noted that all the Louisiana Purchase territory north of the southern boundary of Missouri, except Missouri, would be free, and the territory below that line would be slave.

Why so important? the Missouri Compromise stipulated that all the Louisiana Purchase territory north of the southern boundary of Missouri, except Missouri, would be free, and the territory below that line would be slave. On the constitutional side, the Compromise of 1820 was important as the first instance of Congressional exclusion of slavery from public territory acquired since the adoption of the Constitution.



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-by **//Tom Chae//**

The cry against the South's "peculiar institution" Humble Thoughts on Slavery Response to North’s outrageous assertion of slave banning