Tallmadge Amendment
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The Tallmadge Amendment was a proposed amendment to a bill regarding the admission of the Territory of Missouri as a state, under which Missouri would be admitted as a free state. The amendment was su
James Tallmadge portrait
Missouri Compromise
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The Missouri Compromise was federal legislation of the United States that balanced the desires of northern states to prevent the expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states to ex
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…and help from five northern Senators: Harrison G. Otis of Massachusetts, Ninian Edwards and Jesse B. Thomas of Illinois, and two others. In 1820, the Missouri Compromise was passed without the Tallmadge Amendment. The Compromise attempted to appease both sides of the debate by admitting Missouri as a slave state in…
President James Monroe, who signed the Missouri Compromise
Thomas Jefferson: The Missouri crisis roused Thomas Jefferson "like a fire bell in the night".
Rufus King, the last of the Federalist icons
Diagram of the Old Senate Chamber