The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" id="mwcw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States House of Representatives">United States House of Representatives</a> passes the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Compromise" id="mwdA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Missouri Compromise">Missouri Compromise</a> for the first time.<sup about="#mwt56" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"}}' id="cite_ref-9" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_17#cite_note-9" id="mwdQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 9;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwdg">[9]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"><cite about="#mwt53" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFWoodburn1894">Woodburn, James A. (1894). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=SjQOAAAAIAAJ" id="mwBpo" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBps">The Historical Significance of the Missouri Compromise</i></a>. Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association. p.<span id="mwBpw" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>256. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./OCLC_(identifier)" id="mwBp0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a><span id="mwBp4" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11821758" id="mwBp8" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">11821758</a>.</cite><span about="#mwt53" class="Z3988" id="mwBqA" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Historical+Significance+of+the+Missouri+Compromise&amp;rft.place=Washington%2C+D.C.&amp;rft.pages=256&amp;rft.pub=American+Historical+Association&amp;rft.date=1894&amp;rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F11821758&amp;rft.aulast=Woodburn&amp;rft.aufirst=James+A.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DSjQOAAAAIAAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFebruary+17"></span></span>