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James Tallmadge offered an amendment that forbade further introduction of slaves into Missouri in 1819. The US Senate refused to concur with the amendment. The House passed a bill allowing Missouri into the union as a slave state in 1820. In the same year, the Missouri Compromise passed in the US Congress.
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The Missouri Compromise made slavery illegal in much of the US, except for the state of Missouri. Some people believe that this made the Civil War erupt later than it would have without the compromise.
both the Missouri compromise of 1820 and the compromise of 1850 settled conflicts between the north and the south over
The Missouri Compromise of 1850 was made a moot compromise with the introduction of the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854. Neither pieces of legislation can be demonstrated as a cause of the US Civil War. And, both laws were deemed unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court in the Dredd Scott case of 1857.