Missouri & Maine. APEX.
Yankees.
To achieve statehood, Missouri had to allow slavery. This was the Compromise of 1820. The other part of that compromise was that Maine entered the Union as a free state. To keep the number of slave states and free states equal, prevented the Civil War from happening sooner.
Maine would have to join as a free state so Missouri could become a slave state.
Surprisingly, Maine was not one of the first territories of the United States to be given statehood. I would have thought otherwise, for it was colonized so early in the country's history, but it is the twenty third state. It was given its statehood on the fifteenth of March, in the year 1820.
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In 1820.
March 15, 1820
Maine's Statehood was delayed to maintain the Balance of Power in the US Senate over the issue of slavery. The 1820 Missouri Conpromise settled the issue by allowing the Free State of Maine and the Slave State of Missouri statehood jointly. The Senate would remain gridlocked on the issue of slavery and only a great Civil War would resolve the issue,
It entered the Union as a result of the Missouri Compromise.
On 15 March 1820 as the 23rd State.
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