Missouri controversy

(noun)

The Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily, the regulation of slavery in the western territories.

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Examples of Missouri controversy in the following topics:

  • Legal Changes to Slavery: 1777-1804

    • Through the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, slavery was prohibited in the territories northwest of the Ohio River, while territories south of it (and Missouri) did allow slavery.
    • The controversial question of whether to add additional slave states to the United States coincided with this debate.
    • The first major public debate about slavery and the Declaration took place during the Missouri controversy of 1819 to 1821.

  • The Mormon Exodus

    • The journey was taken by about 70,000 people beginning with advanced parties sent out by church fathers in March 1846 after the assassination of Mormon founder Joseph Smith made it clear the faith could not remain in Nauvoo, Illinois—which the church had recently purchased, improved, renamed and developed because of the Missouri Mormon War setting off the Illinois Mormon War.
    • The well organized wagon train migration began in earnest in April 1847, and the period (including the flight from Missouri in 1838 to Nauvoo) known as the Mormon Exodus is, by convention among social scientists, traditionally assumed to have ended with the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869.
    • This harsh treatment caused the body of the Church to move from one place to another - from Ohio to Missouri, and then to Illinois, where church members built the city of Nauvoo.
    • Sidney Rigdon was the First Counselor in the LDS First Presidency, and as its spokesman, Rigdon preached several controversial sermons in Missouri, including the Salt Sermon and the July 4th Oration.
    • These speeches have sometimes been seen as contributing to the conflict known as the 1838 Mormon War in Missouri.

  • The Dred Scott Decision

    • The Dred Scott decision was particularly significant because the Court concluded that Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories (nullifying the Missouri Compromise) and that, because slaves were not citizens, they could not sue in court.
    • In 1820, he followed his owner, Peter Blow, to Missouri.
    • In 1836, Scott was again moved to the Wisconsin territory, an area where slavery was "forever prohibited" under the Missouri Compromise.
    • In 1857, when the Supreme Court heard Dred Scott’s case, it was faced with several controversial questions that were of great significance to an increasingly polarized country.
    • This marked only the second time the Supreme Court had found an act of Congress, in this case the Missouri Compromise, to be unconstitutional.

  • The Election of 1816 and the Monroe Presidency

    • The Panic of 1819 caused a painful economic depression, and an amended bill for gradually eliminating slavery in Missouri precipitated two years of bitter debate in Congress.
    • The Missouri Compromise bill resolved the struggle, pairing Missouri as a slave state with Maine as a free state and barring slavery north of latitude 36°30′ north.
    • The Missouri Compromise lasted until 1857 when it was declared unconstitutional by the U.S.
    • Monroe sparked a constitutional controversy in 1817 when he sent General Andrew Jackson to move against Spanish Florida to attack the Seminole Indians and punish the Spanish for aiding them.

  • The Missouri Compromise

    • The Missouri Compromise of 1820 concerned the regulation of slavery in the western territories.
    • When the status of the Missouri territory was taken up in earnest in the U.S.
    • The crisis over Missouri led to strident calls for disunion and threats of civil war.
    • Congress finally came to an agreement called the "Missouri Compromise" in 1820.
    • Missouri and Maine (which had been part of Massachusetts) would enter the Union at the same time: Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.

  • The Fugitive Slave Act

    • The Fugitive Slave Act, passed in 1850, caused controversy and contributed to Northern fears of a "slave power conspiracy."
    • The Fugitive Slave Act was one of the most controversial provisions of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a "slave power conspiracy."
    • The Missouri Supreme Court held that voluntary transportation of slaves into free states, with the intent of their residing there permanently or definitely, automatically made them free, whereas the Fugitive Slave Act dealt with slaves who went into free states without their master's consent.

  • Finding Patient Zero and Tracking Diseases

    • For example, in the early years of the AIDS epidemic there was controversy about a so-called Patient Zero, who was the basis of a complex transmission scenario.
    • Louis, Missouri of complications from AIDS in 1969, and most likely became infected in the 1950s, so there were prior carriers of HIV strains in North America.

  • The 2012 Presidential Election

    • Conversely, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania lost votes.

  • National Convention

    • Despite recent controversy maintaining that recent conventions were scripted from beginning to end, and that very little news comes out of the convention, the acceptance speech has always been televised by the networks, because it receives the highest ratings of the convention.
    • Louis, Missouri.

  • The Truman Presidency

    • He served as a United States Senator from Missouri (1935–45) and briefly as Vice President (1945) before he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945 upon the death of Franklin D.
    • This decision remains controversial to this day.