. A history of the United States. avery had a majority. Which-ever group should win a new state would of course gain twovotes in the Senate. The dispute was finally settled on thisoccasion by a famous bargain. The Maine settlers, whose territory had long been a part ofMassachusetts, wished to enter the Union as a separate state,and to do so without allowing slavery. The majority of thepeople of Missouri, on the other hand, desired to make slav-ery legal within their own boundaries. Henry Clay suggestedthat the whole matter be settled by allowing Maine and Mis-souri to have their way. This woul
. A history of the United States. avery had a majority. Which-ever group should win a new state would of course gain twovotes in the Senate. The dispute was finally settled on thisoccasion by a famous bargain. The Maine settlers, whose territory had long been a part ofMassachusetts, wished to enter the Union as a separate state,and to do so without allowing slavery. The majority of thepeople of Missouri, on the other hand, desired to make slav-ery legal within their own boundaries. Henry Clay suggestedthat the whole matter be settled by allowing Maine and Mis-souri to have their way. This would keep the two factionsin the Senate equal, twelve states belonging to each. Asfor the rest of the Louisiana Territory, except Louisiana andMissouri, slavery should be forbidden in all that portionnorth of the parallel of 36° 30. Nothing was said about theportion south of the Hne, but it was intended that it shouldbe open to settlers with slaves. The Missouri Compromise, as the bargain was called, was THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE 317. 3i8 THE MARCH OF POPULATION WESTWARD really a victory for those who wished to exclude slaveryfrom the territories. Nine-tenths of Louisiana Territorylay north of 36° 30. The Purchase of Florida, 1819. — In 1819 a large extensionof territory where slavery was already recognized partly com-pensated the South for what it lost by the Missouri Com-promise. Ever since the purchase of Louisiana in 1803 theUnited States had tried to buy Florida from Spain. Finally,in 1819, an agreement was reached, and the United Statespurchased the whole territory of Florida for about $5,000, United States agreed at the same time not to claim thatTexas was a part of the old Louisiana Purchase; that is, toregard tlje Sabine River as the boundary between its ownterritory and Mexico. The purchase meant that the peopleof the South possessed the river courses over which theircommerce travelled to the sea. Andrew Jackson had a shorttime before conquered the Creek Indians
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