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Africans in America: Missouri Compromise

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This PBS site offers information about the compromise that settled the question of whether slavery would be allowed in the vast area acquired from France in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.

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36 degrees 30' latitude, free states, pbs, sectionalism, slave state, slave states, spread of slavery, states' admission to union, missouri compromise, louisiana territory, monroe administration, tallmadge amendment, slavery in missouri, missouri compromise of 1820
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information