PPT Slide
Open talk of secession and civil war
House-Senate conference recommends compromise along Senate bill�s lines, though in guise of amendments to House�s bill
Henry Clay engineers passage of compromise in House; key vote drops restriction on slavery in Missouri, 90-87 (14 northerners ally with all southerners to pass)
Thomas�s dividing line endorsed 134-42, with narrow majority of southerners supporting
Issue revisited in 1821; compromise reaffirmed