The Missouri Compromise allowed two new states to be admitted. The two states that were admitted are Maine and Missouri.
The Missouri Compromise allowed Maine and Missouri to enter the United States. Maine would be a free states, while Missouri would be a slave state.
There were 12 slave states after the Missouri Compromise.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was a compromise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in Congress agreeing to prohibit slavery in states north of the parallel 36°30' north except in the state of Missouri. Additionally, the state of Maine was allowed to join the Union as a free state. This compromise was passed due to concerns of the creation of the state of Missouri destroying the delicate balance between slave states and free states in Congress.
The Missouri Compromise, passed in 1820, allowed Missouri to enter the United States as a slave state, allowed Maine to enter as a free state, and limited slavery in the territories of the Louisiana Purchase to land south of 36°30' N.
The decision of whether to admit the new South Western territories to the Union as slave-states or free soil. The Compromise allowed no new slave-states North of the parallel that marked Missouri's Southern border.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed a slave state into the union when alternated with a free state. The compromise allowed Missouri to enter the US as a slave state and part of Massachusetts was divided to allow the entrance of Maine into the US as a free state.
The Missouri Compromise dealt with the expansion of slavery into the western territory (previously known as the Louisiana Territory).
The overriding issue was slavery. The compromise included The Fugitive Slave Act and agreement to allow slavery within the borders of Missouri.
In 1820 to 1821, Henry Clay engineered the Missouri Compromise. The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 by the United States Congress.
Missouri Compromise
compromise of 1850's and the Missouri compromise divided the united states into the north and the south united states.