The goal was to keep a political balance between slave states and free states.
1820
yes
yes
The border between slave states and free states
the Missouri Compromise
yes
mason Dixon line
The political balance between slave and free states as of 1819 was disturbed by the territory of Missouri's petition for admission to the Union as a slave state.
The goal was to keep a political balance between slave states and free states.
Missouri Compromise
No