The Missouri Compromise was effective for a short while, when westward expansion was not a serious thing. It kept the balance of slave states in the Union which appeased the North and South, who were pitted against each other because of this conflict. However, as westward expansion became a bigger movement, legislation such as the Kansas-Nebraska act ignored the Missouri Compromise line, as did much of the settlement in the West. Instead, it relied on popular sovereignty.
It kept the peace for thirty years, and could have continued for longer, except that California was too big to fit the terms of the Compromise. (It extended too far on either side of the Missouri line.)
Yes, it kept the peace for thirty years, until the annexation of several Mexican provinces caused more debate over which new states would be slave and which would be free.
To maintain the balance between slave and free states-
Yes, it balanced the arguments and counter-arguments, and kept the peace for thirty years, before the new lands acquired from Mexico needed a new compromise.
The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820.
why was the Missouri compromise written?
Thomas Jefferson started the Missouri Compromise
Jefferson Davis proposed the Missouri compromise.
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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.
Missouri compromise
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
the Missouri compromise determined that Missouri could become a state if
Abraham Lincoln supported the Missouri compromise :p
The Missouri Compromise