Slavery could exist south of this line but was forbidden north of it, with the obvious exception of Missouri. The Missouri Compromise resulted in the District of Maine, which had originally been settled in 1607 by the Plymouth Company and was a part of Massachusetts, being admitted to the ...
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The names of the potential crossovers will vary depending on the issue, but among the possibili- ties are that well-known maverick from Arizona, John McCain; Olympia Snowe and Susan Col- lins, both of Maine; Arlen Specter of Pennsylva- nia; George Voinovich of Ohio, and Richard Lu- gar...
PORTLAND, Maine — The spring-like setting was sublime, Casco Bay shimmering below a large hillside park where hundreds of people, memorial balloons in hand, had gathered in sorrow. They came to remember 502 Mainers who died of drug overdoses last year, a staggering toll in a ...
Congress reached a “compromise” on Missouri’s admission, largely through the work of Kentuckian Henry Clay. Maine would be admitted to the Union as a free state. In exchange, Missouri would come into the Union as a slave state. Legislators sought to prevent future conflicts by making Mis...
line item without simply striking it — Alaska, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin — the use of this power by governors has significantly more effect. As studies by W. Marc Crain, James Miller, and former Congressional Budget...
year. Rural Colorado, Oregon, and Maine have seen similar upticks in property sales. Vermont is going through a renaissance in real estate, with an agent there remarking that "people are buying houses That's devastating for the economics of major cities and devastating without even seeing them...
The sequence onthe bottom lineandrationalization, which explains why it is always wrong to selectively argue one side of a debate. Positive bias,motivated skepticism, andmotivated stopping, lest you selectively look for support, selectively look for counter-counterarguments, and selectively stop the ...
The Northeast is heavily dependent on heating oil to keep homes warm in the winter, while other regions rely more on natural gas and electricity. Most fuel consumed from the Middle Atlantic states to Maine comes from Gulf Coast refineries, according to energy officials. ...