Both sides were equally uneasy about it, but this managed to hold the balance for about thirty years, until the future of California came to be decided.
If there had been two states of North and South California, then war could probably have been avoided. But the vast new state extended too far on either side of the Missouri line for the Compromise to be practical, and a new Compromise had to be worked out. This one did not last.
The Northern states were opposed to the Missouri Compromise of 1820. They felt Missouri should not be a slave state as it would give the South more power.
The Missouri Compromise was done in 1820. The Missouri Compromise decided North and South Power.
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the Missouri compromise
The Missouri Compromise postponed the issue of slavery.
They made the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise splits the early America into the South (where slavery is upheld) and the North ( Where slavery is banned)
The Missouri Compromise helped resolve the voting balance between the south and the north.So Missouri was admitted as a slave and Maine was admitted as a free state.
The Missouri Compromise provided that no Slave State could be established to the north of a line represented by the parallel 36° 30' coincident with the Southern boundary of Missouri.
Basically the Missouri Compromise of 1850 was a fair compromise. One problem for Northern abolitionists was that the Compromise ushered in the Fugitive Slave Act. They were outraged that the new compromise included this law.
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