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The Mississippi Compromise was passed in 1820 to resolve the ever-growing problem of maintaining the balance between free and slave states in the United States.

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The forced Congress to decide if slavery would be allowed in regions west of the Mississippi.?

Missouri compromise


The Missouri Compromise forbid the expansion of slavery west of the Mississippi?

True


Forced congress to decide if slavery would be allowed in regions west of the mississippi?

missouri compromise


What was the compromise that had Missouri enter the union as 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.


True or false The Missouri Compromise forbid the expansion of slavery west of the Mississippi?

False. The Missouri Compromise was meant to lay down the boundary for the new states. Anywhere North of that parallel was free soil. South of it could be slave-states.


What compromise lead to the civil war?

the Missouri compromise, the 3/5 compromise, and the compromise of 1850 no it was thethe Missouri compromise, the 3/5 compromise, and the compromise of 1850


Henry clay's compromise became known as what?

The Missouri Compromise The Compromise of 1850 The Kansas-Nebraska Act.


What is an agreement reached in which each side gives up something that it wants?

It is called a compromise. Examples are the Great Compromise, and the Three-Fifths Compromise.


What is the correct chronological order of these eventsCompromise of 1850, Three-Fifths Compromise, Missouri Compromise,Emancipation Proclamation?

Three-Fifths Compromise, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Emancipation Proclamation


What did The Missouri Compromise have on the civil war in St. Louis?

The Missouri compromise made Missouri a slave state and so naturally put it into the Confederate camp when the Civil War broke out. Free state Illinois is just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis so there many ties with the Union as well.


To reach an agreement by having each party give up some of what it wants?

settlement reached when two arguing groups to give some things


When each side gives in a little to reach an agreement?

Negotiated compromise