All 5 Uses of
Missouri Compromise
in
Profiles in Courage
- 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.†
Chpt 2.4
- 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.†
Chpt 2.4
- It repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and reopened the slavery extension issue thought settled in the Compromise of 1850, by permitting the residents of that vast94 territory from Iowa to the Rockies to decide the slavery question for themselves, on the assumption that the northern part of the territory would be free and the southern part slave.†
Chpt 2.5
- Sam Houston looked upon the Missouri Compromise, which he had supported in 1820 as a youthful Congressman from Tennessee, as a solemn and sacred compact between North and South, in effect a part of the Constitution when Texas was admitted into the Union.†
Chpt 2.5
- Maintain the Missouri Compromise!†
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Definitions:
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(Missouri Compromise) an agreement between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States which, among other things, admitted Missouri as a slave state and Main as free state to maintain the balance of free and slave states
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus