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The Missouri Compromise (also known as the Compromise of 1820) was federal legislation of the United States that balanced desires of northern states to prevent the expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states to expand it.
20 cze 2024 · Missouri Compromise, measure worked out in 1820 between the North and the South and passed by the U.S. Congress that allowed for admission of Missouri as the 24th state. It marked the beginning of the prolonged sectional conflict over the extension of slavery that led to the American Civil War.
29 paź 2009 · The Missouri Compromise, an 1820 law passed amid debate over slavery, admitted Missouri to the Union as a state that allowed slavery, and Maine as a free state.
Kompromis Missouri, wypracowany w 1820 roku układ pomiędzy stanami północnymi a południowymi. Polegał on na przyznaniu stanowi Missouri statusu niewolniczego w zamian za zgodę stanów południowych na to, by na terytoriach zachodnich granica niewolnictwa przebiegała wzdłuż równoleżnika 36°30’.
10 maj 2022 · Learn about the legislation that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state, and prohibited slavery above the 36º 30' latitude line in the Louisiana Territory. Read the conference committee report on the Missouri Compromise from the National Archives.
Missouri Compromise, (1820)Act passed by the U.S. Congress admitting Missouri to the Union as the 24th state. After the territory requested statehood without slavery restrictions, Northern congressmen tried unsuccessfully to attach amendments restricting further slaveholding.
The crucial compromise there that sacrificed the rights of African Americans in favor of a stronger union among the states exploded once more in 1819 when Missouri petitioned to join the United States as a slave state.
