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there were 12 free states and 12 slave states.
The 1820 Missouri Compromise was put in place by Congress in order to maintain the balance between slave States and non slave States. Senator Henry Clay was one of the key politicians in formulated the Compromise.
1820
Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
Missouri Compromise
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The five states that contained a substantial number of slave-majority counties in 1820 were North Carolina, Mississippi, Maryland, Tennessee and Alabama. These were all considered to be in the south.
there were 12 free states and 12 slave states.
1820
admitting equal number of free and slave states
The fourth United States Census was conducted in 1820 and determined that there were 9,638,453 people living in the country, of which 1,538,022 were slaves. By 1830 that number had increased to 2,009,043 slaves.
Missouri Compromise
The 1820 Missouri Compromise was put in place by Congress in order to maintain the balance between slave States and non slave States. Senator Henry Clay was one of the key politicians in formulated the Compromise.
The 1820 Missouri Compromise was put in place by Congress in order to maintain the balance between slave States and non slave States. Senator Henry Clay was one of the key politicians in formulated the Compromise.
Missouri itself. IMPROVEMENT The State of Maine, to balance the number of Free States and Slave States after the admission of Missouri as Slave State in the Union.
1820
compromise of 1820