It got California admitted as free soil, on condition that two other states could be admitted as slave-states.
Two slave states were indsputably Union states: Delaware and Maryland. Three slave states had two state governments, a Unionist one and a Confederate one, both claiming to be the legitimate government of their state: Kentucky, Missouri, Virginia.
nowadays, all states let their slaves enter the militia
Missouri (slave) and Maine, as a seceded part of Massachusetts (free)
Missouri's request for statehood touched off a sectional crisis between the northern, non-slave states and the south, slave holding states. The crisis was whether Missouri any states in general would become slave holding states or not.The promblems did Missouris request for statehood cause is Missouris request for statehood touched off a sectional crisis between the northern non-slave state and the south. Slave holding states. The crisis was wheather Missouri any states in general would become slave holding states or not.
Missouri was admitted as a slave state, but no more slave states would be allowed anywhere North of the parallel that marked Missouri's Southern border.
Maine and Missouri
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Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.
The North were free states and the South were slave states.
Every state has the same number of U.S. Senators (two), so if there were more free states than slave states, the Senators from the southern slave states would be outnumbered, so they wouldn't have enough votes to stop any anti-slavery legislation from passing.