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HISTORY: 11H/AP (Civil War): The Missouri Compromise

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Overview

Missouri Compromise was a measure worked out between the North and the South and passed by the U.S. Congress that allowed Missouri to be admitted as the 24th state (1821). It marked the beginning of the prolonged sectional conflict over the extension of slavery that led to the American Civil War.

Database Research Links

Missouri Compromise

Encyclopædia Britannica, 31 Jul. 2019.

The Missouri compromise reconsidered: Antislavery rhetoric and the emergence of the free labor synthesis

Zeitz, Joshua Michael. Journal of the Early Republic; Philadelphia Vol. 20, Iss. 3,  (Fall 2000): 447-485.

Earle, Jonathan. Magazine of History; Bloomington Vol. 25, Iss. 2,  (Apr 2011): 8-13.

The Maine and Missouri Crisis: Competing Priorities and Northern Slavery Politics in the Early Republic

Mason, Matthew. Journal of the Early Republic; Philadelphia Vol. 33, Iss. 4,  (Winter 2013): 675-700.

The Missouri Compromise Reconsidered: Antislavery Rhetoric and the Emergence of the Free Labor Synthesis

Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Autumn, 2000), pp. 447-485 (39 pages)

Prelude to the Missouri Compromise: A New York Congressman's Effort to Exclude Slavery from Arkansas Territory

The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Spring, 1965), pp. 47-66 (22 pages)

Newsela Collection

U.S.History - The Missouri Compromise and Enslavement in the Western U.S.

Benedict Library Resources

Images

MISSOURI COMPROMISE, 1820. - Map of the United States showing the free and slave states and territories following the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

Fine Art. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
quest.eb.com/search/140_1648865/1/140_1648865/cite. Accessed 18 Nov 2021.

Title-page of the printed speech by Rep. James Tallmadge (N.Y.), 1819, in the House of Representatives moving for the gradual abolition of slavery in Missouri.

Fine Art. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
quest.eb.com/search/140_1644720/1/140_1644720/cite. Accessed 18 Nov 2021.

The home of Missouri's first governor, Alexander McNair, at the time of the Missouri Compromise in 1820.

Wood engraving, 19th century. Fine Art. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
quest.eb.com/search/140_1629240/1/140_1629240/cite. Accessed 18 Nov 2021.