... the Louisiana Purchase with the exception of the segments organized as the state of Louisiana, which took place in 1812 and the Arkansas Territory, which took place in 1819. The application of the Missouri Territorial Assembly, which had originally petitioned for statehood in 1817, raised the question of the legal status of slavery in Missouri and the rest of the territory west of the Mississippi River. In 1818, there was an estimated two ... constitution did not mean what it clearly said, but the compromise worked. Henry Clay's amendment states: " That Missouri shall be admitted into t...

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