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The Missouri Compromise maintained the balance between slave and free states.

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What compromise lead to the civil war?

the Missouri compromise, the 3/5 compromise, and the compromise of 1850 no it was thethe Missouri compromise, the 3/5 compromise, and the compromise of 1850


How did the Missouri compromise cause the Civil War?

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How sectionalism and the Missouri compromise related?

Sectionalism and the Missouri compromise was related in such a way that slavery was the primary issue. This led to Civil War.?æ


How was the Civil War nearly avoided?

The US Civil War was delayed by the Missouri Compromise, but not avoided,


What did The Missouri Compromise say about slavery?

The Missouri Compromise made slavery illegal in much of the US, except for the state of Missouri. Some people believe that this made the Civil War erupt later than it would have without the compromise.


What did the Missouri Compromise prevent?

The Missouri Compromise helped prevent the civil war by equalling the power in between free states(NORTH)and slave states(SOUTH)


How many years after the Missouri Compromise did the Civil War begin?

41 years


What was the impact of the civil war after The Missouri Compromise?

There was no Civil War while the Missouri Compromise was in force. It kept the peace for thirty years. It was the debate over the admission of California, following the Mexican War, that made the Missouri Compromise inoperable (because the new state extended so far on either side of the line) and a new Compromise had to be worked out. This one did not last.


Was theMissouri Compromise long-term effect of the plan to delay the Civil War or hasten the Civil War?

The Misouri Compromise of 1820 delayed the Civil War for a generation. It was undone by the Compromise of 1850, and barely ten years after the end of the Missouri Compromise disunion and war came.


What amendment said that Missouri could join the union as a free state?

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed Missouri to join the Union as a slave-state. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Lincoln allowed Missouri to continue practising slavery for the duration of hostilities, so as not to drive it into the arms of the Confederacy. The 13th Amendment (December 1865) outlawed slavery in every state of the Union.


What did The Missouri Compromise have on the civil war in St. Louis?

The Missouri compromise made Missouri a slave state and so naturally put it into the Confederate camp when the Civil War broke out. Free state Illinois is just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis so there many ties with the Union as well.


What did the north lose from the Missouri compromise of 1820?

It lost the state of Missouri to the Slave-owners, though when it came to the Civil War, Missouri narrowly voted to stay loyal.