USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Tallmadge proposed that Missouri be admitted as a free state, that no more slaves be allowed to enter Missouri after it achieved statehood, and that all enslaved children born there after its admission be freed at age twenty-five.

Detailed explanation-2: -On February 13, 1819, Representative James Tallmadge Jr., a first-term Republican from New York, offered a pair of antislavery amendments to a Missouri statehood bill that shaped the course of American history.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Tallmadge Amendment of 1818 was a failed piece of legislation proposed by New York Representative James Tallmadge Jr. (1778–1853) in an attempt to resolve the question of how the Missouri Territory should be admitted to the Union.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Tallmadge amendment prohibited the further introduction of slaves into Missouri and provided for emancipation of those already there when they reached age 25. The amendment passed the House of Representatives, controlled by the more-populous North, but failed in the Senate, which was equally divided between…

Detailed explanation-5: -*James Tallmadge, Jr. was born on this date in 1778. He was a white-American politician and abolitionist. Born in Stanford, Dutchess County, New York, he graduated from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, in 1798 and was secretary to Governor George Clinton from 1798 to 1800.