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Missouri Compromise   /məzˈʊri kˈɑmprəmˌaɪz/   Listen
Missouri Compromise

noun
1.
An agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories.





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"Missouri Compromise" Quotes from Famous Books



... for him in the quarter he least expected it. The old abolitionists, whom nobody had thought of since the repeal of the Missouri compromise and who were beginning to feel a good deal neglected, looked upon Phillips now as a deserter from their standard of non-resistance and moral suasion, and perhaps also eyed his brilliant course with some little jealousy. In the spring of 1865 Garrison ...
— Sketches from Concord and Appledore • Frank Preston Stearns


Words linked to "Missouri Compromise" :   compromise


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