| Y/M/D | Description | Place |
|---|---|---|
| 1820/03/06 | Too keep an equal balance between slave and free states, the US Congress adopts a law admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state and that slavery is prohibited above the 36d 30m latitude line in the Louisiana Territory. | Old Senate Chamber, United States Capitol |
| 1820/04/22 | (slavery) like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union.... I regret that ... the generation of '76 ... is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons - TJ | Monticello, Charlottesville, VA |
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