The Missouri Compromise
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
N 36° 30.000 W 097° 52.356
14S E 600966 N 4039998
The line in the sand that became a reason during the Civil War.
Waymark Code: WM6M7A
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 06/19/2009
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THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE
(36° 30' NORTH LATITUDE)
This marker sits on the Missouri Compromise line which by an Act of Congress on March 6, 1820, enabled Missouri to be admitted to the Union as a Slave State. But, the Act forbade slavery in the rest of the Louisiana purchase North of the 36° 30" North Latitude. The proposal marked the first great debate over the Territorial Expansion of slavery.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of May 30, 1854, repealed section #8 of the Missouri Compromise , which was the most important provision and created the Kansas and Nebraska Territories.

The 36° 30' North Latitude is the south border of Missouri, except for the Bootheel, and the south border of the Oklahoma Panhandle.

County: Garfield County

Record Address::
US-60/64
2 miles N. of
Enid, OK USA
73701

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Date Erected: August, 1991

Sponsor (Who put it there): Robert L. (Bob) Klemme, Pellow Monuments.
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