On March 15, 1820, under the Missouri Compromise, it was admitted to the Union as the 23rd state. |
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Among these were the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act, and the Dred Scott decision. |
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Clay engineered the morally indefensible Missouri Compromise. |
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The Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Bleeding Kansas crisis dealt with whether new states would be slave or free, or how that was to be decided. |
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On March 15, 1820, as part of the Missouri Compromise, the territory of Maine, formerly a part of Massachusetts, was admitted to the Union as a free state. |
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