The "Border States" were slave states.
slave states
15 slave states and 19 free states during the American Civil War
So the balance of slave to free states were equal in congress
Yes but its by votes. Or so they can make the slave states and free states equal by number like Missouri
they made an agreement. there was acertian degrees to slave states and free states. the nourth is the free states and the south is the slave states.
18 states were free states, 15 states were slave states 33 states overall
Missouri was a slave state. Maryland and Kentucky were slave states.
In America there was 11 free states and 11 slave states, before the compromise.
There were 12 slave states after the Missouri Compromise.
California became a free state in 1850, ending the balance of free states and slave states. However, the slave states got a tougher fugitive slave law as a result of California's admission to the Union as a free state.
Some states were free states and some states were slave.