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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
the Missouri Compromise
the Missouri Compromise [the Missouri Compromise] BrE NAmE the general name for several US laws passed in 1820–1 to end disputes between slave states and free states. Both groups wanted new states to follow their systems. According to the Compromise, ↑Missouri joined the Union as a slave state and ↑Maine as a free state. It also declared that slaves would not be allowed in the northern part of the ↑Louisiana Purchase. It was replaced in 1854 by the ↑Kansas-Nebraska Act.
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