The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to allow the state to enter as a slave state. At the time there was 22 states and they were evenly divided between slave and free. Admission of Missouri as a slave state would upset the balance of power and set a movement towards the expansion of slavery. This debate ran from December 1819 to March 1820 until the compromise was worked out. The compromise stated that Missouri would come in slave while Maine would come in free and except for Missouri slavery would be excluded from the Louisiana Purchase lands north of latitude 36 30'.
This plan was criticized by many southerners because it would establish a principle that Congress could make laws regarding slavery and the north felt it gave into slavery. Yet, this help hold the union together for more than 30 years until it was repealed by the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854. Three years later in the Dred Scot case the Supreme Court found the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional on the grounds that Congress was prohibited by the Fifth Amendment from depriving individuals of private property without due process of law. I think it worked for a time and conditions made it so it couldn't work.
None. It was a successful compromise that kept the peace for thirty years.
Abraham Lincoln supported the Missouri compromise :p
In 1820 to 1821, Henry Clay engineered the Missouri Compromise. The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 by the United States Congress.
Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
Missouri Compromise was signed in 1820s. The Compromise of 1850 was signed in the 1850s
None. It was a successful compromise that kept the peace for thirty years.
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.
The Missouri Compromise The Compromise of 1850 The Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Three-Fifths Compromise, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Emancipation Proclamation
The Missouri Compromise was done in 1820. The Missouri Compromise decided North and South Power.
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The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820.
why was the Missouri compromise written?
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The Maine, Missouri, Clay's, or Henry's compromise
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