3 март 1820 г. - Missouri Compromise

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Key Event: The Missouri Compromise is a key event because it had dramatically postponed the start of the dreadful Civil War.

Defined: The Senate and the House of Representatives decided that Missouri and Maine would join the U.S. as a slave state and a free state. Any new states above the 3630 latitude line that join the United States were required to be a free state, and any new state below the line would be a slave state.

Described: America had recently obtained land from France in the Lousiana Purchase, and pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions were unable to agree on whether the new territories would permit slavery. When Missouri requested admission to the Union as a slave state, tensions further increased, and the U.S. government decided to make a compromise to satisfy both sides.

Short Term: The Compromise was drafted carefully so that the number of Senators would be the same for anti-slavery and pro-slavery states, ensuring that no political group had more power over the other.

Long Term: The Missouri Compromise had defused the political rivalries of anti-slavery and pro-slavery supporters; the compromise held the Union together for more than 30 years until the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 repealed the Missouri Compromise.

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