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She says the Missouri Compromise both delayed the Civil War and sowed its seeds.Missouri Compromise = salve state / free state compromise
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The 1854 repeal of important provisions of the Missouri Compromise caused outrage in the north.Missouri Compromise = slave state / free state compromise
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Cousin Ike would say, "the Missouri Compromise was what licked us..." (source)Missouri Compromise = agreement between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States
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In eighteen twenty, the Missouri Compromise opened the way for Missouri to come into the Union as a slave state and Maine to come in as a free state. (source)
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820—whereby Missouri was admitted as a slave state, Maine (until then part of Massachusetts) as a free state, and slavery excluded in the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36° 30'—left Adams in torment over the future.† (source)
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In that same year, 1820, the year of the Missouri Compromise, Thomas Garrett and his wife, Sarah, both Quakers, moved from Darby, Pennsylvania, to Wilmington, Delaware.† (source)
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Maintain the Missouri Compromise!† (source)
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More important, they said they would work to make the Fugitive Slave Law a joke, make it as worthless as the Compromise of 1820, which the South had agreed to and then junked as part of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill.† (source)editor's notes: The Compromise of 1820 is better known as the Missouri Compromise.
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The repeal of the Missouri Compromise in 1854, which started the dissolution of both major parties and created a fluid political situation, once again aroused Lincoln's hopes.† (source)
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I've got about seventy-five other things to do and the Missouri Compromise to straighten out, but I'll take your case.† (source)
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He was born with the Missouri Compromise and lay a-dying amid the echoes of Manila and El Caney: stirring times for living, times dark to look back upon, darker to look forward to.† (source)
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In 1854, men talked of Kansas and Nebraska, and of the Little Giant—Stephen Douglas, the handsome black-haired Senator from Illinois—who was trying to persuade the Senate to repeal the slavery restriction clause in the Missouri Compromise, as part of his Kansas-Nebraska Bill.† (source)
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Unfortunately, until it was too late, Benton refused to recognize slavery as a major issue, believed that the Missouri Compromise of 1820 (which brought his state into the Union and Benton to the Senate) had taken it out of politics, and refused to debate it on the Senate floor.† (source)
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1854—"....his profession had almost superseded the thought of politics in his mind, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused him as he had never been before";† (source)
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On March 2nd, the Senate passed the Kansas-Nebraska Bill which repealed the Missouri Compromise restriction and divided the Nebraska Territory into two territories: Kansas and Nebraska.† (source)
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To extend the slavery line of the Missouri Compromise into California and thus split the state, or to delay its admission by tying it to this Omnibus Bill, was reprehensible to Benton, the father-in-law of Colonel John Fremont, hero of California's exploration and development.† (source)
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