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This 5 page paper analyses the text of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, why it was drawn up, its historical impact and how a historian could incorporate it into a narrative of the nation’s past. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Compromise. Discussion This paper considers three subject areas with regard to the Compromise: its historical context; its historical impact; and how historians can use it to construct a narrative history
of America. The historical context of the Compromise lies in the friction between free and slave states; in fact, it goes back to the founding of the nation. Many
historians have said that the Civil War was probably inevitable, given the fact that the country had been founded with slavery still a part of its Constitution. The issue of
slavery was a sore point from the earliest days. When and why was it produced? In 1820, when the Compromise was enacted, the debate over slavery centered on Missouri,
which was still a territory but had applied to join the Union. The South wanted it to come in as a slave state; the North wanted it to come in
as a free state. It was thus a response to a specific issue: the status of slaves within the new state. It reflected its time in the sense that this
sort of debate could only have taken place in the United States in the latter 18th and first half of the 19th centuries. After the Civil War, slavery was over,
though of course prejudice against African-Americans remains to this day. The historical impact: What the Missouri Compromise of 1820 did was to make the war virtually inevitable. It did not
settle the question of slavery; it didnt emancipate the slaves; it merely "tabled" the discussion. It did so by allowing Missouri to come into the Union as a slave state,
balanced by Maine, a free state, but prohibiting slavery in that part of the Louisiana Purchase above 36?30; since much of Missouri was part of the Louisiana Purchase, this meant
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