the majority wanted. The Missouri Compromise included adding Missouri to the slave state list. but first they had to have another state agree to be a free state. which was Maine. For all of this to be passed and agreed on there were other things that had to be done. Slavery was to be outlawed in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase‚ and the north of Missouri. Missouri did not allow free black people into the area‚ but it was against the Constitution. Missouri wasnt happy about it‚ they redid
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and Nebraska Act was introduced in 1854 by Senator Stephen A. Douglas. Douglas was a Democrat well liked in the South. He didn’t really care too much about slavery because he was looking toward the development of the new Western country between the Missouri River and California. Specifically‚ he wanted a transcontinental railroad that went through Chicago‚ which was his home town. Building this road would involve grants of public land. The south‚ on the other hand‚ wanted it to go to the Pacific coast
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Print Cite In 1803‚ President Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana from the French government for $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to New Orleans‚ and it doubled the size of the United States. To Jefferson‚ westward expansion was the key to the nation’s health: He believed that a republic depended
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increasing political weight. Proslavery and antislavery factions began to consider how slavery fit into the United States’ political and historical background.1 Accelerating expansionism in the 1840s revived conflicts earlier settled by the 1820 Missouri Compromise.2 The Liberty Party formed to advocate the total elimination of slavery. Although abolitionists were effective as social agitators‚ they were less skilled in political organization. The Liberty Party reached its peak of influence in the
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The state of missouri now has too many wild turkeys! Worked out a clever deal. Every year Missouri trades some of it’s extra turkeys to Kentucky in exchange for river otters. David Hamilton‚ a wildlife protection specialist with the Missouri Department of conservation says‚ "We want otter and Kentucky wants turkey. We’ve got plenty of turkey‚ and since Kentucky doesn’t have surplus otter‚ they have to get them in Louisiana". This type of trading among states to preserve endangered wildlife has
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Jackson‚ our nation was forged and held together by compromises.” I chose to cover 5 different compromises from this time period. They are: “The Great Compromise”‚ “The 3/5ths Compromise”‚ “Presidency Compromise”‚ “Tariff Compromise”‚ and “The Missouri Compromise”. At the Constitutional Convention‚ which started May 1887‚ one of the nation’s first compromises was reached. There were two plans that were up for debate. William Paterson of New Jersey had a plan and so did James Madison of Virginia
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War. Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri‚ which had been a slave state since the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820.
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died. (Missouri Digital
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“He got the job. We’re going to be moving to Missouri.” My mom said excitedly. It felt like the whole world just stopped. I felt nauseous‚ like I was falling off a cliff‚ like I was in a dark cave with no way out. I felt like my world had just ended. “What do you mean he got the job‚ Mom?” I asked stuttering. “The place in Kansas City‚ Missouri that interviewed him‚ hired him‚ and they’re are the only ones to give him a job. So‚ we’re moving to Missouri.” She said like it was so obvious. The next
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compromise‚ including the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850‚ but to no affect. Disunion and division could not be avoided and the Civil War began in 1861. There were many issues dividing the North and the South‚ the most controversial of which was slavery. Slavery was seen as a moral abomination in the North and revered as a way of life in the South. Northern reformers and others wanted slavery to end‚ while Southerners were devoted to its preservation. When Missouri applied for admission
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