4A-Missouri Compromise (1820) (mar 2, 1820 – may 30, 1854)
Description:
"Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.(division of the US begins and obviously would create tensions --> eventually lead up to the Civil War)
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Date:
mar 2, 1820
may 30, 1854
~ 34 years