Similar words: compromise, promissory, compromising, promissory note, uncompromising, missouri, promise, promises. Meaning: n. an agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories.
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1. As a part of the Missouri Compromise, Congress had prohibited slavery within that territory.
2. Was the Missouri Compromise legal?
3. He admitted that the old Missouri compromise of eighteen twenty had limited the right to take slaves into the territories.
4. The repeal of the Missouri Compromise in 1854 rekindled Lincoln's political ambition.
5. In eighteen twenty, Congress had passed the Missouri Compromise. It extended a line across the map of the United States.
6. Nebraska lay north of the Missouri compromise line, which had been established in eighteen twenty. Slavery was not permitted there.
7. It was free because Congress -- in the Missouri Compromise of Eighteen Twenty -- made slavery illegal in that area.
8. Leaving the adoption of slavery up to the individual states directly contradicted the Missouri Compromise, which barred the extension of slavery into new states.
9. Abraham LincolnI was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.
10. President Polk's alternative to the Wilmot Proviso was to fall back on the Missouri Compromise, an 1820 law that permitted Missouri to be admitted as a slave state with Maine as a free state.
11. I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.
12. I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
13. Serving in the House of Representatives from 1816 to 1821(Sentencedict), Tyler voted against most nationalist legislation and opposed the Missouri Compromise.
14. Congress had banned slavery in those places under the Missouri Compromise Act of Eighteen Twenty.
15. Most remaining Northern Whigs , like Lincoln, joined the new Republican Party and strongly attacked the Act, appealing to widespread northern outrage over the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.
16. To close territory to slaves, Taney said, violated the constitutional rights of slaveholding citizens. Therefore, the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
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