| 单词 | missouri compromise |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMissouri Compromise Missouri Compromise n. U.S. (now historical) the measure passed by the U.S. Congress in 1820 (and repealed in 1854) which provided that Missouri should be admitted to the Union as a Slave State, but forbade slavery in any other part of the Louisiana Purchase lying north of the latitude 36° 30′. ΚΠ 1820 in T. H. Benton Exam. Dred Scott Case (1857) 102 The line is..nominated..by its popular descriptive appellation of ‘the Missouri Compromise Line’. 1847 J. K. Polk Diary 16 Jan. (1910) II. 335 The line of the Missouri Compromise, viz., 36° 30′. 1943 E. B. White One Man's Meat 16 The Missouri Compromise had temporarily settled the slavery question. 1993 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 59 357 To this end he worked diligently for the Missouri Compromise. 2006 M. J. Gross How to Draw Life & Times James Monroe x. 22 Monroe and his government reached a short-term answer with the 1820 Missouri Compromise. Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state, and Maine was admitted as a free state. < as lemmas |
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