Joshua Leu & Stephen Chang

American Studies – ½
11/13/10

Missouri Compromise

Who:

Proposed by John W. Taylor of New York

Between pro and anti-slavery factions within the United States

Congress

What:

Prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana territory (north of the

36⁰30’parallel) except in the soon to be annexed Missouri territory

Where:

Missouri territory

When:

March 3rd, 1820

Why:

As Maine had recently been admitted to the Union as a free state,

many of those who advocated slavery demanded remuneration and
thus the Missouri compromise was created in order to preserve the
balance of slave and free states.

It staved off the Civil War by providing a way for the Union to admit
states while maintaining balance of power in the senate between the
Slave and Free states. This continued the cycle of slave – free – slave
ect. Attributing toward tension that would have contributed toward the
war, but for the most part it served as a balancing statute.
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American Studies – ½
11/13/10

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