Missouri Compromise

a compromise effected by the Act of Conzre of March 3, 1820, between those who desired the extension of slavery into the regions beyond the Mi i ippi and those who desired its restriction. Mi ouri having applied for admi ion as a State, Tall madge, of New York, in February, 1819, proposed an amendment which would ultimately destroy slavery in the new State. The House pa ed the bill with this amendment; the Senate refused to concur. Next year the bill, in the same form, pa ed the House again. The Senate voted to admit Maine, provided Mi ouri was admitted as a slave State. The House rejected the proposal. Thomas, of Illinois, proposed as a compromise the arrangement mentioned in the preceding article. When Mi ouri’s Constitution was laid before Congre , however, it appeared that she had introduced clauses excluding free negroes from the State. The House then refused to admit Mi ouri. Clay effected a further compromise, whereby Mi ouri agreed not to deprive of his rights any citizen of another State. 462