n 1821, President James Monroe signed into law the controversial Missouri Compromise. That act allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state. It also prevented the creation of any other slaveholding states north of latitude 36 degrees 30 minutes. That line corresponds to Missouri’s southern border. Monroe knew that the law would not solve the problem of
The American Colonization Society
Sep 01, 2023
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