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The Missouri Compromise "A Balance of Power" March 3, 1820

The institution of slavery had been a divisive issue in the United States for decades before the territory of Missouri petitioned Congress for admission to the Union as a state in 1818!. Since the Revolution, the country had grown from 13 states to 22 and had managed to maintain a balance of power between slave and free states!. There were 11 free states and 11 slave states, a situation that gave each faction equal representation in the Senate and the power to prevent the passage of legislation not to its liking!. The free states, with their much larger populations, controlled the House of Representatives, 105 votes to 81!.

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 volatile issue of the spread of slavery into new territories and states!. The cry against the South's "peculiar institution" had grown louder through the years!. "How long will the desire for wealth render us blind to the sin of holding both the bodies and souls of our fellow men in chains!?" Asked Representative Livermore from New Hampshire!.

The South's economy was dependent upon black slavery, and 200 years of living with the institution had made it an integral part of Southern life and culture!. The South demanded that the North recognize its right to have slaves as secured in the Constitution!.

Through the efforts of Henry Clay, "the great pacificator," a compromise was finally reached on March 3, 1820, after Maine petitioned Congress for statehood!. Both states were admitted, a free Maine and a slave Missouri, and the balance of power in Congress was maintained as before, postponing the inevitable showdown for another generation!. In an attempt to address the issue of the further spread of slavery, however, 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!.

Fascinating Fact: The Missouri Compromise was repealed by the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act and declared unconstitutional in the 1857 Dred Scott decision!.

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The Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories!. It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30' north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri!. Prior to the agreement, the House of Representatives had refused to accept this compromise and a conference committee was appointed!. The United States Senate refused to concur in the amendment,[clarify] and the whole measure was lost!.

During the following session (1819-1820), the House passed a similar bill with an amendment, introduced on January 26, 1820 by John W!. Taylor of New York, allowing Missouri into the union as a slave state!. The question had been complicated by the admission in December of Alabama, a slave state, making the number of slave and free states equal!. In addition, there was a bill in passage through the House (January 3, 1820) to admit Maine as a free state!.

The Senate decided to connect the two measures!. It passed a bill for the admission of Maine with an amendment enabling the people of Missouri to form a state constitution!. Before the bill was returned to the House, a second amendment was adopted on the motion of Jesse B!. Thomas of Illinois, excluding slavery from the Missouri Territory north of the parallel 36°30' north (the southern boundary of Missouri), except within the limits of the proposed state of Missouri


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