A compromise<span> was reached. On March 3, </span>1820<span>, Congress passed a bill granting </span>Missouri<span> statehood as a slave </span>state<span> under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th parallel, which runs approximately along the southern border of </span>Missouri<span>.</span>
The outcome of the Battle of Gettysburg affected morale on both sides by convincing the North that was possible and the South that defeat was inevitable.
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Spain was the first of the European countries to colonize the New World. People from France, England, Holland, and Sweden did not settle in the Americas until after 1600. Spain had the advantage of nearly a full century to stake its claims.