... with no statement on the current racial situation. Although finishing in compromises, the debates directed shock through American governments. At the peak of the primary debate, Speaker of the House Henry Clay perceived that the Missouri query "monopolizes all our conversation, all our thoughts and...all our time. Nobody seems to think or care about anything else." However as ... that "taking it away does not remove it," noticed by one Northern editor. "The spread of our Negro population, is like the spread of a plague; it will afford no relief to impart the malady to others: we may giv...

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... July 12, 1817. The "era" generally is considered coextensive with President James Monroe's two terms (1817-25), it really began in 1815, when for the first time American citizens could afford to pay less attention to European political and military affairs. The predominant attitude was what in the 20th century is called isolationism. The good feelings, perhaps better termed complacency, were ... Massachusetts, as a free state, and to prohibit the formation of any further slave states from the territory of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36[dg] 30[pr] north latitude. Henry Clay then ...

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