Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
Maine became a state in 1820 as part of the Missouri Compromise. This act formed both Maine and Missouri to help keep the balance between free and slave states, Maine being a free state, and Missouri being a slave state. Maine had been part of Massachusetts until then.
You need to check with both offices. Obviously you are collecting an accumulative benefit through the interstate agreement of the states and earned in the respective base periods of both.
The Missouri Compromise was Missouri (South) and Maine (North) wanting to come into the United States union, government didn't know if they both should be slave states or free states. An idea proposed by Henry Clay stated that Maine should be a free state, so Missouri should be a slave state. This achieved that any new state that wanted to become apart of the union above the 36'30 latitude are free states, then anything below the latitude are slave states.
Both Maine and Missouri were in the same position. They could not gain entrance to the union without the other. At the time, whenever a free state entered the union, a slave state had to enter also. So admitting Maine, meant admitting Missouri.
It had to do with the Missouri Compromise, where both Missouri and Maine were applying for statehood. Maine was inducted as free, Missouri slave, and everything over the 36 30 line was free, except for Missouri. So who had to agree? The Senate and The House, so that they could get statehood. Without that, Maine would have been a state way later.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820.
The 1820 Missouri Compromise.
Iowa and Missouri.
Both Tennessee and Missouri border 8 other states (the most of any).
Tennessee and Missouri both border 8 states.
they are both states