1820-1861
That's forty-one years.
Some say it saved America.
Political parties avoided the issue of slavery for many years 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.
No. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed slavery in those parts of the Louisiana Purchase that were South of the line. North of the line, it was illegal. This simple and sensible compromise kept the peace for thirty years.
Thirty years of peace, owing to the simplicity of the solution - a clear line in the sand, with no slavery allowed to the North of it. It was the admission of California - too big to fit the terms of the Compromise - that led to the scrambled Compromise of 1850, which did not hold.
Yes - along one line of latitude. It marked a clear line in the sand, and it kept the peace for thirty years.
None. It was a successful compromise that kept the peace for thirty years.
Thirty years of peace. It was a well-balanced arrangement.
No - in the North. It banned slavery anywhere North of the parallel that marked Missouri's Southern border. This was a successful compromise which kept the peace for thirty years.
No. The Compromise allowed the Missouri territory to join the USA as a slave-state. The condition was that there should be no more new slave-states North of the parallel that marked Missouri's Southern border. This represented a clear 'line in the sand' that kept the peace for thirty years, until the admission of California made the Compromise inoperable.
Missouri compromise...
Because California was too big to fit the terms of the Missouri Compromise - a sensible arrangement that had kept the peace for thirty years. .
Political parties avoided the issue of slavery for many years after the Missouri compromise.
Political parties avoided the issue of slavery for many years 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.
The vast new territories ceded from Mexico invalidated the Missouri Compromise that had kept the peace for thirty years. So a new compromise had to be worked out, and this one did not last.
By drawing a line in the sand. Anywhere North of that line was free soil. This kept the peace for thirty years.
Thirty years of peace. Only when the new territories acquired from Mexico (especially California) came up for statehood did it prove unworkable.