Social Sciences and History / Unit 1 SSH 0030 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Missouri Compromise
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The idea
Missouri's bid to enter as a slave state in eighteen nineteen raised slavery's morality and the fear of disunion. The compromise of eighteen twenty admitted Missouri with slavery and Maine free, barring slavery north of thirty-six thirty.
In practice
The Tallmadge Amendment for gradual emancipation, narrowly rejected.
Where people slip
The anchor does not name Clay here. The witness credits him, and the course says so.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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