 | Samuel Jones Burr - 1840 - 312 pages
...left free and unshackled in the formation of the state constitution. The next year, when the state of Missouri applied for admission into the Union, as a slave state, the same restriction was again attempted, but filially, through the matchless abilities and exertions of... | |
 | Henry Wikoff - Slavery - 1861 - 84 pages
...as to introduce a minimum rate for ad valorem duties, that is, a rate below which the duties should not fall.* A new National Bank act was also passed,...of latitude. In 1821, James Monroe was re-elected President. During this term, a new conflict arose between the politicians of New England and those... | |
 | George Fitch - Political parties - 1883 - 276 pages
...contention at the formation of the Constitution, had been gradually increasing in importance until 1819, when Missouri applied for admission into the Union as a slave State. A violent altercation then ensued, which was finally settled for the time being by the adoption of... | |
 | Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler, Franklin Lafayette Riley, James Curtis Ballagh, John Bell Henneman, Edwin Mims, Thomas Edward Watson, Samuel Chiles Mitchell, Walter Lynwood Fleming, Joseph Walker McSpadden - American literature - 1909 - 680 pages
...abolition of the slave trade because it was provided for in the constitution of the United States. But when Missouri applied for admission into the Union as a slave state and Congress desired to exclude it, or to admit it only if slavery should be abolished in its limits,... | |
 | Education - 1912 - 606 pages
...Florida Purchase, 1819. Spain sold it to us for five million dollars. 3. Missouri Compromise, 1820. Missouri applied for admission into the Union as a slave state. The Northern people objected. The difficulty was settled by the Missouri Compromise formulated by Henry... | |
 | Joe Wheeler - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 313 pages
...Lincoln was only eleven. Indeed, the nation's thirtieth birthday was almost its last. When, in 1819, Missouri applied for admission into the Union as a slave state, the twenty-two states were evenly divided at eleven free and eleven slave. The debate over the issue grew... | |
 | 1912 - 586 pages
...Florida Purchase, 1819. Spain sold it to us for five million dollars. 3. Missouri Compromise, 1820. Missouri applied for admission into the Union as a slave state. The Northern people objected. The difficulty was settled by the Missouri Compromise formulated by Henry... | |
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... not fall.* A new National Bank act was also passed, April, 1816; the old one having expired in 1811. In 1817, James Monroe, of Virginia, was elected President. During this term the interests of the country prospered. No struggle occurred between the... 