Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. The Electorate of Saxony, also known as Electoral Saxony (German: Kurfürstentum Sachsen or Kursachsen), was a territory of the Holy Roman Empire from 1356–1806. Its territory included the areas around the cities of Dresden, Leipzig and Chemnitz. In the Golden Bull of 1356, Emperor Charles IV designated the Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg an ...

  2. The dispute over Missouri’s status began in February 1819 when Representative James Tallmadge Jr. of New York proposed an amendment to prohibit slavery in Missouri. His proposal would allow for the gradual emancipation of slaves in the territory.

  3. General Order No. 11 is the title of a Union Army directive issued during the American Civil War on August 25, 1863, forcing the abandonment of rural areas in four counties in western Missouri. The order, issued by Union General Thomas Ewing, Jr. , affected all rural residents regardless of their allegiance.

  4. The decisive vote on slavery in Missouri would not occur for a year after this speech. Ultimately, the Missouri Compromise would postpone a sectional Civil War for four decades. Temporarily, the Missouri Compromise of 1820 would temper conflict between the North and the South.

  5. May 10, 2022 · An Act to authorize the people of the Missouri territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories.

  6. Southerners dominated the highest federal offices for the first decades of the United States, as Virginians held the Presidency for nation’s first thirty-two of the first thirty-six years. Northerners resented this dominance and sectional tensions simmered until they threatened to boil over in 1820 when James Tallmadge included the below ...

  7. People also ask

  8. MISSOURI v. McNEELY. certiorari to the supreme court of missouri. No. 11–1425. Argued January 9, 2013—Decided April 17, 2013. Respondent McNeely was stopped by a Missouri police officer for speeding and crossing the centerline.

  1. People also search for