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Just curious. When did the "Missouri Compromise" get renamed "the compromise". I am asking because revisionists have made me very suspicious.

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When did the "Missouri Compromise" get renamed "the compromise". I am asking because revisionists have made me very suspicious.

The Missouri Compromise was 'The Compromise of 1820' which established the "northern limit" of slavery in the territories at 36'30". It was undone by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. This article mentions the Compromise of 1850. That is not the Missouri Compromise.

The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a free state while extending the Missouri Compromise line westward thorugh the new western territories gained after the Mexican-American War.