There were 12 slave states after the Missouri Compromise and 12 free states.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 drew an imaginary slave line at 36 degrees 30 minutes north latitude to separate slave and free states. This compromise aimed to maintain a balance between the number of slave states and free states in the United States.
It got California admitted as free soil, on condition that two other states could be admitted as slave-states.
who did the commerce and slave trade compromise benefit
In America there was 11 free states and 11 slave states, before the compromise.
After 1854, the Missouri Compromise, which was the attempt to balance the number of free states and slave states between the Northern and Southern states of the United States, was relinquished and replaced by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Slave states.
compromise of 1820
allowed the slave states to count a slave as three-fifths of a person
allowed the slave states to count a slave as three-fifths of a person
The Missouri Compromise succeeded in expanding the boundaries of the United States. However, it did not end the slave trade.
The number of U.S. Senators from slave and free states remained even.