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Definition of Missouri Compromise
1. Noun. An agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Missouri Compromise
Literary usage of Missouri Compromise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Great Debates in American Hist: From the Debates in the British Parliament by United States Congress, Great Britain Parliament, Marion Mills Miller (1913)
"William Pinkney [Md.]—Proposal of the Missouri Compromise—Debate in the House:
Proslavery Speakers, Alexander Smyth [Va.], Robert W. Reid [Ga. ..."
2. Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British by United States Congress, Marion Mills Miller, Great Britain Parliament (1913)
"... Opposed, Freeman Walker [Ga.], Nicholas Van Dyke [Del.], James Barbour [Va.], William
Pinkney [Md.]—Proposal of the Missouri Compromise—Debate in the ..."
3. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1892)
"This was the famous Missouri Compromise. It was also understood that Maine should
be admitted without opposition; and the parties to the bargain carried it ..."
4. Political History of Secession to the Beginning of the American Civil War by Daniel Wait ( Howe (1914)
"Moreover up to this time nobody in the North, and probably but few in the South,
seemed to have thought of an out-and-out repeal of the Missouri Compromise, ..."
5. The Political History of Slavery in the United States by James Zachariah George (1915)
"CHAPTER VII WAS THE Missouri Compromise VIOLATED BY THE SOUTH? AT this point it
is proper to inquire as to the truth of the alleged violation of faith by ..."
6. History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America by Henry Wilson (1875)
"The Missouri compromise. — Bill for the organization of the Territory of Nebraska.
... Dixon's proposition to abrogate the Missouri compromise. ..."
7. The Slave Power: Its Character, Career and Probable Designs: Being an by John Elliott Cairnes (1863)
"The Missouri Compromise had served its end. Under it the most commanding ...
In passing the Missouri Compromise Congress was said to have exceeded its ..."
8. The Congressional Globe by United States Congress, Francis Preston Blair, John Cook Rives, George A. Bailey, Franklin Rives (1857)
"Sir, during the great debate in this House and in the Senate in 1854, it was
manifest that no one :hen thought that the Missouri compromise had seen ..."