With regards to this agreement, Thomas Jefferson wrote that he "considered it at once the Knell of the Union.
With regards to this agreement, Thomas Jefferson wrote that he "considered it at once the Knell of the Union. The logistics of this agreement were complicated by the entrance of Alabama as a slave state the previous December, making  the number of slave and free states equal. The Tallmadge amendment to this would have required that children born of  slave parents would be freed when they became twenty five in the namesake state. A possible crises was averted by  Henry Clay when Maine applied for statehood as a free state. FTP, name this 1820 compromise which prohibited  slavery north of the 3630' line in the former Louisiana territory.
With regards to this agreement, Thomas Jefferson wrote that he "considered it at once the Knell of the Union.
Missouri Compromise