It meant a state in which people were allowed to own slaves. Several Southern states in the US allowed slavery until the Civil War ended the practuice.
Utah
A slave-holding state was a state where the enslavement of Africans was legal
A slave-holding state was a state where the enslavement of Africans was legal
Texas was a slave holding Republic and would become a slave holding state.
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The border state of Maryland remained in the Union during the US Civil War and was a slave holding state. Washington DC is surrounded by Maryland and by the Potomac River.
The Missouri Compromise agreed to admit Missouri as a slave-holding state, and at the same time agreed to admit Maine as a non-slave-holding state. It also entailed that no states above the latitudinal line 36°30' would be admitted as a slave-holding state, promoting a Congressional balance of power.
Maryland and Virginia
Since the signing of the constitution by the original 13 colonies, the US was divided into slave-holding and non-slave-holding states, and this difference of policy was a source of conflict for various reasons. For example, if a slave manages to escape from a slave-holding state into a non-slave-holding state, does the slave get returned to his or her supposed owner? Is an escaped slave considered a person, or simply lost property? These and other issues caused a lot of tension, to the point where the south just wanted to secede. Meanwhile the north wanted to preserve the union. So the issue was resolved by means of war.
Missouri's request for statehood touched off a sectional crisis between the northern, non-slave states and the south, slave holding states. The crisis was whether Missouri any states in general would become slave holding states or not.The promblems did Missouris request for statehood cause is Missouris request for statehood touched off a sectional crisis between the northern non-slave state and the south. Slave holding states. The crisis was wheather Missouri any states in general would become slave holding states or not.
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Missouri's request for statehood touched off a sectional crisis between the northern, non-slave states and the south, slave holding states. The crisis was whether Missouri and future states in general would become slave holding states or not. With the large expansion of land from the Louisiana Purchase this crisis was a very contemporary issue. This crisis was solved by having every state north of parallel 36°30' that was newly christened into the union would be a free state an any state below that line would be a slave holding state, this was the Missouri Compromise.