Missouri
Maine and Missouri
Missouri itself. IMPROVEMENT The State of Maine, to balance the number of Free States and Slave States after the admission of Missouri as Slave State in the Union.
Maine. Missouri would enter as a slave state, and rest of the Louisiana Territory latitude 36o30' slavery was prohibited.
Missouri & Maine. APEX.
Maine and Missouri
Maine and Missouri were admitted to the Union as part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free 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.
Missouri just joined the union as a slave state
Maine
The Missouri Compromise (1820)