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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 coved the issue of slavery in the United States at that time. The compromise gave all the let the land south of the Missouri state border to be able to choose to have slaves, while all states north of that border had to be free states.
all the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the southern border of Missouri.
it ran across the border of Mexico
The border between slave states and free states
West of its border. this was later repealed
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.
It sounds like the Missouri Compromise, where slavery would be permitted 'not north' of Missouri's Southern border.
The Missouri Compromise - a line of latitude fixed at Missouri's Southern border.
Yes. It was Missouri's Southern border that became the parallel.
No new slave-states North of the parallel that marked Missouri's Southern border. But this only applied to the territories acquired from France in the Louisiana Purchase. After the Mexican War, a new compromise had to be worked out.
No. The Missouri Compromise was in 1820 after Missouri entered the union as as slave state. To keep the Senate balanced, Maine was admitted as a free state. The final agreement stated that no slave states could enter the Union above the southern border of Missouri, which is mostly 36° 30' degrees N latitude.