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- OSHTEMO: Children's Collection
What was the Missouri Compromise? : and other questions about the struggle over slavery
Publication Information
Minneapolis : Lerner Publications Company, ©2012.
Physical Description
48 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm.
Summary
Answers questions about slavery and the Missouri Compromise, discussing why it was controversial, what the terms were, and who stood out as the great compromiser.
Contents
- The big controversy
- The Missouri question
- The big debate
- A state at last!
- The country's response
- Primary source: Thomas Jefferson's letter to John Holmes
- Tell your Missouri compromise story.