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Events on Monday 6 March 1820 1
1820Missouri Compromise enactedUS Congress restricts slavery's expansion into the Louisiana Purchase territoryCongress agreed to admit Missouri as a slave state while barring slavery north of the 36°30′ parallel in the remaining Louisiana Purchase lands. The compromise, brokered largely by Henry Clay, postponed sectional conflict over slavery for a generation.