Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Recap of events


Today in class, we went to the library and learned about the Missouri Comprimise.

In 1820, US congress passed the Missouri Comprimise was passed, making Missouri a slave state, but also halting all expansion of slavery to the west. That contained slavery to the south, which helped with the process of the abolition of slavery.

We also learned that there were more slaves in the south than free African-Americans in the northern states.

We also learned that there were also more people in the south than in the north, which may have been the cause of the form of slavery that was seen in Missouri being similar to the slavery seen in southern states.

That is what I learned in History class today when we went to the library.

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