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Missouri Compromise

a term given to a compromise under an act of Congress passed in February, 1821, at which time Missouri was admitted into the Union as a slave State, declaring that all territory W. of Missouri and N. of lat. 36° 30' (the S. boundary of Mis- Belmore Browne EXPLORERS ON THE SOUTHERN SIDE OF MT. MCKINLEY, ALASKA. THIS IS THE HIGHEST PEAK IN NORTH AMERICA Enc. Vol. 6-p. 260 DE Ewing Galloway INTERIOR OF A PLANT FOR REGRINDING COPPER, IN THE COPPER DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN A VIEW OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER PET ETER A VIEW OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER Ewing Galloway 000 A MISSISSIPPI RIVER STEAMER AND A DOCK FOR RICE, NEW ORLEANS Ewing Galloway PANAMARU HIDES FROM ARGENTINA, UNLOADED FROM A JAPANESE STEAMER AT NEW ORLEANS Photo, British and Colonial Press MONTREAL