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The political balance between slave and free states as of 1819 was disturbed by the territory of Missouri's petition for admission to the Union as a slave state.
Missouri's application as a slave state in 1819 challenged US law by raising the issue of balancing free and slave states in the Union, upsetting the delicate equilibrium between the two. This set the stage for the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which attempted to maintain this balance by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while also establishing a line across the Louisiana Territory restricting slavery north of a certain latitude.
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Missouri. Congress agreed to allow Missouri to join the Union as a slave-state, on condition that no new slave-states were admitted anywhere North of the parallel that marked Missouri's Southern border.
No. The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free.
alabama, which became a state in 1819, was admitted into the union as a slave state.
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principally in admitting Missouri, a slave state, and Maine, a free state, into the Union at the same time, and in regulating slavery in the former Louisiana Territory
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