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Parallel 36°30′ north

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from being surrounded by Confederate states, and hence being cut off from the rest of the Union. If such a thing had happened, then the Federal government would have been forced to move somewhere else further north, such as to
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wanted to have the support of another slave state so the Senate could not abolish slavery in the United States. This situation remained in effect for decades because as the free states of
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of 1820 established the latitude 36°30′ as the northern limit for slavery to be legal in the territories of the west. As part of this compromise,
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confirmed that the 36°30′ parallel was the northmost boundary of Texas. Then Kansas was admitted to the Union as a free state in 1861.
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joined the United States in 1845 as a slave state, it was required to cede all of its claimed land north of the 36°30′ latitude to the
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Map of the United States c. 1849 (modern state borders), with the parallel 36°30′ north – slave states in red, free states in blue
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The parallel 36°30′ north is part of a nearly straight east-west line of state borders (with small variations) starting on the
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lie close to the parallel 36°30′. The boundary between Kentucky and Tennessee was defined as 36°30′, based on the
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along the line of 36°30′, or to allow slavery south of it; the social and political conditions created by the
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The gap between the northern boundary of Texas on the parallel 36°30′ north and the southern boundaries of
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plantations. Hence, part of the Missouri Compromise arose from this. Also, the slave states of the
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had Confederate legislatures that were elected in parallel with their regular legislatures. Also
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in 1861 moved the boundaries of one of the western territories, New Mexico, north to the
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wanted Maryland to stay in the Union in order to prevent the national capital city of
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who lived in southeastern Missouri supported slavery, especially for farming on their
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ruled out any such idea, and California was admitted to the union as a free state.
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In 1779 and 1780, surveyors were sent to mark the line on the ground as far as the
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of the Earth. This parallel of latitude is particularly significant in the
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extends about 50 miles (80 kilometers) to the south, all the way to the
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until 1871, when it was given to Nevada by the Federal government.
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and heading eastwards, the parallel 36°30′ north passes through:
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The bulk of Missouri lies north of the 36°30′ line, but Southern
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This 1856 map shows slave states (gray), free states (pink),
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between the free states and the slaveholding states.
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were admitted to the Union, the new slave states of
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