The Missouri Compromise helped prevent the civil war by equalling the power in between free states(NORTH)and slave states(SOUTH)
The Missouri Compromise - a line of latitude fixed at Missouri's Southern border.
There were 12 slave states after the Missouri Compromise and 12 free states.
The Missouri Compromise - No slavery North of the parallel 36.30
Good question! The North benefited from the Missouri Compromise, because they received another state in the North (Maine) that did not allow slavery (because the North didn't like slavery.) The South benefited from the Missouri Compromise, because they received another southern state (Missouri) that was capable of having slaves. This way, both the North and the South had an equal amount of 12 Northern states and 12 Southern states.
The Missouri Compromise coved the issue of slavery in the United States at that time. The compromise gave all the let the land south of the Missouri state border to be able to choose to have slaves, while all states north of that border had to be free states.
An advantage to the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was that slavery would not be permitted in the territory that is now the state of Missouri. A disadvantage to the Missouri Compromise was that people who believed in slavery in the South could not move north to gain more land and keep their slaves.
The Missouri Compromise was done in 1820. The Missouri Compromise decided North and South Power.
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 caused slavery to expand in to the north.
The compromises that the Northern and Southern states reached were the Great Compromise and the Three-Fifths Compromise.~A.K. =)
They made the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.