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| January 16, 1821 | John Cabell Breckinridge born, near Lexington | Kentucky |
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| February 10, 1821 | Senate passes public lands debt relief bills | |
| February 28, 1821 | House passes the public land debt relief bill. Most of the opposition comes from the North, where few had engaged in the speculation that created the problem | |
| June 1, 1821 | In the wake of the Missouri Compromise, Quaker Benjamin Lundy prepares to roll the press on a weekly publication, Genius of Universal Emancipation. It has a pro-abolition stance. | |
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| August 10, 1821 | Missouri is admitted to the Union | Missouri |
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