The Missouri Compromise had stated that all states above the 36 30 parallel would be free, and all below it would be slave states. This had established a begrudging peace between the North and the South, which lasted until the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854, which repealed the compromise and introduced the concept of popular sovereignty in determining whether a state would be slave or free.
it let the new territories in the U.S. decide if they wanted to be a free state or a slave state
to end an agruement about the territories
No most northerners did not like popular sovereignty because it violated the Missouri compromise. The South was in favor of popular sovereignty because it allowed the people to decide if slavery would be allowed in a new territory.
The Missouri River
The Kansas-Nebraska Act served to negate the principles laid down in the Missouri Compromise of 1820. It allowed the residents of Kansas and Nebraska to vote on whether to be free or slave states.
The assurance that there would be no new slave-states North of the Missouri line.
the Missouri comprimise was written by Henry clay
missouri was split into two free states
happened in 1820
The Missouri Comprimise happened in 1820.
The Missouri Compromise stated that Missouri would be a slave state and Maine would be free.
Maine
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Missouri and Maine
The skilled mediation of Henry Clay led to the ratification of the Missouri Compromise in the year 1820.
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Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
The Missouri Comprimise was a plan so that Missouri could become a state and the balance of slave states and free states stayed balanced