It required federal supervision. Many Africans were prevented from voting because they were being harassed. To ensure that they too are able to vote, the Federal government instructed law enforcement and the National Guard to help African Americans to register and vote without fear of being driven of the voting stations.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 established the latitude 36°30′ as the northern limit for slavery to be legal in the territories of the west.
Explanation:
- The Missouri Compromise, as it was known, would remain in impact for just over 30 years till the Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 revoked it.
- In 1857, the Supreme Court in Dred Scott's case found the agreement unconstitutional, setting the stage for the nation's final journey through the Civil War.
- In 1820, while growing sectional tensions over the slavery issue, the U.S. Congress passed a law welcoming Missouri to the Union as a captive state and free state.
They were allowed to rejoin if they accepted the 13th amendment. It was one of the reconstruction amendments that ended slavery and gave led to African-Americans getting their voting rights and their freedom.If they wouldn't accept it they wouldn't be allowed back.
