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The Missouri Compromise affected the area in the former Louisiana Territory, except within the boundaries of the state of Missouri. It was a compromise that prohibited slavery within the territory.
The Missouri Compromise was done in 1820. The Missouri Compromise decided North and South Power.
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Missouri itself - and after that, any of the other territories acquired by the Louisiana Purchase that were South of Missouri's Southern border, that was 36, 30.
The Missouri Compromise postponed the issue of slavery.
No. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed slavery in those parts of the Louisiana Purchase that were South of the line. North of the line, it was illegal. This simple and sensible compromise kept the peace for thirty years.
The assurance that there would be no new slave-states North of the Missouri line.
They made the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
The Missouri Compromise, passed in 1820, allowed Missouri to enter the United States as a slave state, allowed Maine to enter as a free state, and limited slavery in the territories of the Louisiana Purchase to land south of 36°30' N.
Missouri was allowed to join the USA as a slave-state. Other territories within the Louisiana Purchase, south of Latitude 36.30, could also join as slave-states.
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