The Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed Maine to be admitted to the Union as a slave state. This was to counter balance having Missouri enter the Union as a slave state. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed Maine to enter the US as a free state and allow Missouri to enter as a slave state.
The Missouri Compromise allowed Maine and Missouri to enter the United States. Maine would be a free states, while Missouri would be a slave state.
The compromise of 1820 allowed the state of Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state in exhange for Maine entering as a free state. The compromise also stated that any state west of the Mississippi River would enter as a free state.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state. To keep the balance of slave and free states even, part of Massachusetts was divided on its northern border to create Maine. This was a free state.
Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
maine and missouri missouri would enter the union as a slave state maine would enter the union as a free state kept the balance between free and slave states equal
The Missouri Compromise temporarily settled the debate over slavery by allowing Missouri enter the Union as a slave state. Maine was allowed to enter the Union as a free state.
Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
In 1820, a portion of Massachusetts became the state of Maine. This was part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which allowed Missouri to enter the US as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
The Missouri Compromise temporarily settled the debate over slavery by allowing Missouri enter the Union as a slave state. Maine was allowed to enter the Union as a free state.
The Missouri Compromise temporarily settled the debate over slavery by allowing Missouri enter the Union as a slave state. Maine was allowed to enter the Union as a free state.
Missouri was admitted as a slave state. This was part of the Missouri compromise in which Missouri would enter as a slave state and Maine as a free state.