The Missouri Compromise only affected those territories acquired from France in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
After the Mexican War, the vast new territories like California did not fall under the provisions of the Compromise.
Missouri Compromise
it didnt it made it worse
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 temporarily settled the dispute over the westward expansion of slavery. It allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and prohibited slavery north of the 36°30′ parallel in the Louisiana Territory.
Yes - provided that at least half the new states were to be free soil. Hence the Missouri Compromise.
Not really. James was born in Missouri, a generation or two after Missouri had already become a state. Missouri was thickly settled by that time. By the time James was born in 1847 the frontier of westward expansion had already moved hundreds of miles farther west from Missouri.
The Crittenden Compromise
The twenty-fourth state to join the United States was Missouri, which was admitted on August 10, 1821. It was part of the Missouri Compromise, which aimed to maintain a balance between free and slave states. Missouri's admission was significant in the context of the ongoing debates over slavery and westward expansion.
Westward expansion
It effected slavery's westward expansion because slavery would'nt be loyal in any territoy North.
i believe it strengthened it due to thee fact that it caused a new party to arrise and new tpes of presidents with distinct backgrounds
what does zebulon pike have to do with the westward expansion
The westward Expansion started after the gold rush in 1849.