According to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, all territory north of 36 degrees 30 minutes latitude will be free of slavery. (The Michigan Territory is already free territory under the 1787 ...
When the territory ... slave and free state representation -- twelve of each. The enabling act of March 6, 1820, made it clear, however, that fugitive slaves could be apprehended north of the ...
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 kept an uneasy ... idea that the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska would choose for themselves whether they would become slave or free states.
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