A history of the United States for schools . ave state, but Congress took the parallel of ^6° 30 asa dividing line through the rest of the Louisiana pur-chase, and prohibited slavery forever to the north ofthat line. That parallel was thenceforth known as the Missouri Compromise Line. The person to whommost credit was due for the compromise was Henry averted serious trouble between North and South onthe slavery question for nearly thirty years, but it didnot satisfy everybody. Some southerners maintainedthat Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in thenational domain. 3i6 THE FEDER
A history of the United States for schools . ave state, but Congress took the parallel of ^6° 30 asa dividing line through the rest of the Louisiana pur-chase, and prohibited slavery forever to the north ofthat line. That parallel was thenceforth known as the Missouri Compromise Line. The person to whommost credit was due for the compromise was Henry averted serious trouble between North and South onthe slavery question for nearly thirty years, but it didnot satisfy everybody. Some southerners maintainedthat Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in thenational domain. 3i6 THE FEDERAL UNION. Ch. XIV, The elec-tion of1824. In the next election there were four candidates for thepresidency, all called Republicans. They wereJohn Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts ; HenryClay, of Kentucky ; William Crawford, of Geor-gia ; and Andrew Jackson, of Tennessee. The latterwas the most popular candidate, on account of his greatvictory over the British. He was also a man of humblebirth, without education or other early advantages, and. JOHN QUINCY many persons wished to see such a man in the WhiteHouse instead of such aristocratic gentlemen as hadhitherto been our presidents. So Jackson had the great-est number of electoral votes, but no one had a majority,and the election was decided by the House of Represen-tatives. The House chose Adams for president. ^ From the National Portrait Galiery, vol. iv. § 119- WESTWARD EXPANSION. 317 ^Dtttintsftratton of 31ol)n i^uiuc^ 0Dam0, National Republican: i82^~i82g. 119. New Issues and a New Division of Parties. The Missouri Compromise quieted the slavery questionfor a while; but other questions coming upbetween 1820 and 1830 brought about a new improve-division of parties. The first question relatedto what were called internal improvements. As the
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