The Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Missouri Compromise
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Mason Dixon Line.
The Mississippi river forms the boundary between Missouri and Illinois!
North 36 degrees 30 minutes
Missouri River BasinThe Missouri River starts in Montana and flows through North and South Dakota, forms the boundary between Nebraska and Iowa and part of the boundary between Kansas and Missouri, and flows through Missouri to the Mississippi River.
The Missouri Compromise helped resolve the voting balance between the south and the north.So Missouri was admitted as a slave and Maine was admitted as a free state.
Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
A border
an imaginary line that divides territories.
the Big Sioux is used to define the boundary between South Dakota and Iowa.