The issue was resolved by a two-part compromise. First, Missouri gained admission to the ... The enabling act of March 6, 1820, made it clear, however, that fugitive slaves could be apprehended ...

It highlights key events such as the Missouri Compromise, the Wilmot Proviso, and the Compromise of 1850, which aimed to maintain a balance between North and South regarding slavery. The film also ...

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 kept an uneasy alliance for many years between the North and South. However, when California became a state further compromise had to be created. The Democrat ...

Major Acts: The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery within their borders, nullified the Missouri ...

However, the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) allowed the new territory of Kansas to decide its stance on the legality of slavery (in defiance of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which did not allow ...

In 1820 the Missouri Compromise was passed to sort out this issue. By 1819, the US was made up of 22 states - evenly split between Slave States and Free States. In November 1819, Missouri ...

Major Acts: James Monroe approved the acquisition of Florida from Spain in 1819. Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise in 1820, which allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as ...

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