. A history of Missouri and Missourians : a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school. upon. This is known in history as the Missouri Com-promise. A law was adopted on March 6, 1820, which gaveMissouri permission to form a state constitution and a stategovernment without any restriction on slavery. This is calledthe Missouri Enabling Act. The act of 1820 had other pro-visions in it. It set forth the boundaries of Missouri as theyare to-day, excepting the Platte Purchase country, which wasadded in 1836. It gave; the new state, United State
. A history of Missouri and Missourians : a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school. upon. This is known in history as the Missouri Com-promise. A law was adopted on March 6, 1820, which gaveMissouri permission to form a state constitution and a stategovernment without any restriction on slavery. This is calledthe Missouri Enabling Act. The act of 1820 had other pro-visions in it. It set forth the boundaries of Missouri as theyare to-day, excepting the Platte Purchase country, which wasadded in 1836. It gave; the new state, United States publiclands for public schools, a state university, and a seat ofgovernment. This act also provided, and this is the importantpart of the Missouri Compromise, that slavery was prohibit-ed in all of the Louisiana Purchase country north of 36° 30(the southern boundary of Missouri) excepting the proposedState of Missouri. Missouris Struggle for Statehood 69 - [—^ — 1 ! ,, — \ 1 =*—. —^^ .=. T ^ ? ^^w I \ 1 kl 1 3 1 T^— r i ±1 lUJLNDARY OF MISSOURI AS FIRSTSLGCIliSTEDlN 1817 I I. Ill ,- llil. «/ Mo . I !.. l!OUNI)AR^(Jl MISSOURI AS SLGGliSTl^D BYTTERRITORIAL LliGlSLATURF. IN 1S18. Ilum Houckj l/iit. vj Mo., I. 5 :b k
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