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Missouri Compromise   /məzˈʊri kˈɑmprəmˌaɪz/   Listen
Missouri Compromise

noun
1.
An agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories.





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... from the beginning was at length settled for all time. The rude awakening came two years later, when the country was aroused, as it had rarely been before, by impassioned debate in and out of Congress, over the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. It was a period of excitement such as we shall probably not see again. Slavery in all its phases was the one topic of earnest discussion, both upon the hustings and at the fireside. There was little talk ...
— Something of Men I Have Known - With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective • Adlai E. Stevenson


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