THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
JAMES MONROES PRESIDENCY
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It increased the number of immigrants settling in northern states.
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It provided financing for canal construction.
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It rapidly expanded railroad construction in southern states.
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It temporarily relieved sectional tensions.
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Detailed explanation-1: -It temporarily relieved sectional tensions by balancing power between slave and free states.
Detailed explanation-2: -This legislation admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time, so as not to upset the balance between slave and free states in the nation. It also outlawed slavery above the 36º 30’ latitude line in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory.
Detailed explanation-3: -Contents. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was a law that tried to address growing sectional tensions over the issue of slavery. By passing the law, which President James Monroe signed, the U.S. Congress admitted Missouri to the Union as a state that allowed slavery, and Maine as a free state.
Detailed explanation-4: -Missouri Compromise, (1820), in U.S. history, measure worked out between the North and the South and passed by the U.S. Congress that allowed for admission of Missouri as the 24th state (1821). It marked the beginning of the prolonged sectional conflict over the extension of slavery that led to the American Civil War.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.