1. Missouri will be admitted as a slave state 2. Maine will be admitted as a free state 3. Any territory within the Louisiana Purchase above the Missouri Compromise Line (parallel 36' 30) will be admitted as a free state. 4. Any territory within the Louisiana Purchase below the Missouri Compromise Line will be admitted as a slave state. There's no fifth point.
all the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the southern border of Missouri.
Missouri
Missouri - admitted to the Union as a slave-state, on condtion that there would be no further slave-states to the North of the parallel marked by its Southern border.
The Louisiana Purchase
slavery was prohibited in the northern part of the louisiana purchase
1. Missouri will be admitted as a slave state 2. Maine will be admitted as a free state 3. Any territory within the Louisiana Purchase above the Missouri Compromise Line (parallel 36' 30) will be admitted as a free state. 4. Any territory within the Louisiana Purchase below the Missouri Compromise Line will be admitted as a slave state. There's no fifth point.
louisiana
The Missouri Compromise, 1820, where Missouri was admitted to the Union as slave-holding state, but all other states to come of the Louisiana Purchase should be non-slavery states.
Missouri has been a state for 190 years exactly
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all the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the southern border of Missouri.
A line in the sand, banning slavery anywhere North of a particular parallel in all the territories acquired from France in the Louisiana Purchase. This would keep a balance between slave-states and free soil, so that voting in Congress would be even-handed.
The three conditions were: to admit Missouri as a free state, to admit Missouri statehood as a slave state where slavery was to be prohibited north of the 36th parallel in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase, Maine a part of Massachusetts was to be admitted as a free state.
Missouri
Missouri - admitted to the Union as a slave-state, on condtion that there would be no further slave-states to the North of the parallel marked by its Southern border.
Missouri compromise