The missouri compromise fixed a line in the louisiana territory at 36'30' n. slavery could not exist north of this line. why was the line placed in this general area?

As the people in the north disliked slavery but the people in the south liked it at that time instead of abolishing it they had a compromise as if there wasnt a compromise then there would have been protests

when world war i broke out across europe in 1914, president woodrow wilson proclaimed the united states would remain neutral, and many americans supported this policy of nonintervention. however, public opinion about neutrality started to change after the sinking of the british ocean liner lusitania by a german u-boat in 1915; almost 2,000 people perished, including 128 americans. along with news of the zimmerman telegram threatening an alliance between germany and mexico, wilson asked congress for a declaration of war against germany. the u.s. officially entered the conflict on april 6, 1917.