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What was the Missouri Compromise? : and other questions about the struggle over slavery / Wendy Lanier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lanier, Wendy Hinote, author.
- Series:
- Six questions of American history.
- Six questions of American history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Missouri compromise--Juvenile literature.
- Missouri compromise.
- Slavery--United States--History--Juvenile literature.
- Slavery.
- United States--Politics and government--1815-1861--Juvenile literature.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (48 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Lerner Publications Company, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- When the Missouri Territory applied for statehood in 1818, the United States had an equal number of free states and slave states. The territory's leaders wanted Missouri to be a slave state. But that would have destroyed the balance of representation in Congress. A heated debate broke out. The southern representatives and Missouri's leaders thought states should be able to decide the slavery question for themselves. Northern members of Congress thought otherwise. Would the Union split apart over the question of slavery? The Missouri Compromise settled the argument and saved the Uniontemporarily. So why was the Missouri Compromise of 1820 so controversial? Who was the great compromiser? What were the terms of the Missouri Compromise? Discover the facts about one of the most debated compromises in U.S. history.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- One: The Big Controversy
- Two: The Missouri Question
- Three: The Big Debate
- Four: A State At Last!
- Five: The Country's Response
- Primary Source: Thomas Jefferson's Letter To John Holmes
- Tell Your Missouri Compromise Story
- Timeline
- Source Notes/Selected Bibliography
- Further Reading And Websites
- Index/Photo Acknowledgments
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 46-47).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-41685-9
- 9786613416858
- 0-7613-8829-X
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