MISSOURI+COMPROMISE

=MISSOURI COMPROMISE author: Frank G.= In the 1817 the inhabitants of the territory of Missouri petitioned Congress for admission into the Union as a State. The Missouri Compromise was an in 1820 between pro-slaver and anti-slavery groups in the United States Congress that involves mostly a regulation of slavery in the western territories. Its settlers mostly came from the south and Missouri was expected to be a slave state. James Tallmadge of New York proposed an amendment that forbid importation of slaves and it would bring about the emancipation of slaves born in Missouri.