History Project

By: Caleb Smithco

The Missouri Compromise

Show me this Missouri you speak

of

About the Missouri Compromise

• Its is when Missouri wanted to become a slave state which means that they were allowed to have slaves.

• It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory. Except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri.

• During the following session, the House passed a similar bill with an amendment, introduced on January 26, 1820 by John W. Taylor of New York, allowing Missouri into the union as a slave state.

• That’s is the Missouri Compromise

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