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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.
The Missouri Compromise was created on March 19, 1820. It was an attempt to retain the balance of power between the northern and southern states. It was repealed by the Kansas Nebraska Act.
Northern and southern states
After 1854, the Missouri Compromise, which was the attempt to balance the number of free states and slave states between the Northern and Southern states of the United States, was relinquished and replaced by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state. To keep the balance of slave and free states even, part of Massachusetts was divided on its northern border to create Maine. This was a free state.
Missouri compromise
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 northerners protests DouglasÕs plan to repeal the Missouri Compromise because it would have made slavery legal in the northern territories. The Missouri Compromise had outlawed slavery in territories and new states above the Missouri Compromise line.
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.
Northern and southern states
The Missouri Compromise was created on March 19, 1820. It was an attempt to retain the balance of power between the northern and southern states. It was repealed by the Kansas Nebraska Act.
it says that slavery was not allowed there
Northern and southern states
Slavery. It established a parallel, North of which slavery was illegal.
slavery was prohibited in the northern part of the louisiana purchase
The compromises that the Northern and Southern states reached were the Great Compromise and the Three-Fifths Compromise.~A.K. =)