False.
The Missouri Compromise was meant to lay down the boundary for the new states. Anywhere North of that parallel was free soil. South of it could be slave-states.
Southern plantation owners feared the Missouri Compromise would limit the expansion of slavery, and eventually the institution of slavery itself.
The overriding issue was slavery. The compromise included The Fugitive Slave Act and agreement to allow slavery within the borders of Missouri.
Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
It prohibited slavery North of a certain parallel, but only in the territories brought in under the Louisiana Purchase. When the new Mexican territories came in, they needed a new compromise. That one did not hold.
The Missouri Compromise - No slavery North of the parallel 36.30
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Slavery. It established a parallel, North of which slavery was illegal.
Missouri Compromise
Southern plantation owners feared the Missouri Compromise would limit the expansion of slavery, and eventually the institution of slavery itself.
They all Dealt with the expansion of slavery into the western lands
Missouri Compromise
The overriding issue was slavery. The compromise included The Fugitive Slave Act and agreement to allow slavery within the borders of Missouri.
missouri compromise
it didnt it made it worse
The Missouri Compromise dealt with the expansion of slavery into the western territory (previously known as the Louisiana Territory).
The Missouri Compromise postponed the issue of slavery.