The Only Use
Missouri Compromise
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
(Edited)
- Cousin Ike would say, "the Missouri Compromise was what licked us..."
p. 87.5Missouri Compromise = agreement between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States
Definitions:
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(1)
(Missouri Compromise) 1820 agreement in the United States that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, and set a line in the Louisiana Purchase territory north of which slavery was mostly banned
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)