THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
JAMES MADISON AFTER THE WAR OF 1812 THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS
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Written by Henry Clay
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South of the 36 degrees 30 north would be Free
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Missouri would enter union a slave state
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North of 36 degrees 30 North would be free territory
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Missouri Compromise did not extend the practice of slavery into the Northwest Territory.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Missouri Compromise was accepted because it: 1) maintained congressional balance in the Senate, 2) allowed for certain new territories to be slave states, and 3) allowed certain new territories to be non-slavery states.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Missouri Compromise also proposed that slavery be prohibited above the 36º 30’ latitude line in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory. This provision held for 34 years, until it was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
Detailed explanation-4: -Which of the following is true about the Missouri Compromise? The Compromise made it so there were the same number of slave and free states. The Compromise upset the balance of power between free states and slave states in the Senate.