The Missouri Compromise was effectively ended by the Kansas-Nebraska Act, however since there was still turmoil as to the "Bleeding Kansas" dispute, it was thought that the Kansas-Nebraska Act would be shortly overturned. The Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court further strengthened the elimination of the Missouri Compromise and the institution of slavery north of the Mason-Dixon Line by ruling that slaves were not able to take cases to court.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
Maine and Missouri were admitted to the Union as part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
This is a weird question ... nearly anything might NOT be part of the compromise. So ... a pitcher of iced tea was NOT part of the Missouri compromise.
Maine and Missouri
Maine and Missouri
Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
Maine
Missouri itself.
They were part of the Missouri Compromise. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries.
Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, made the use of Congressional compromises unnecessary. Voters in territories could vote on the issue of slavery before the territory petitioned for statehood. What remained from the 1850 compromise was the Fugitive Slave Act. Even in 1860, president-elect Lincoln promised to enforce this law as long as it existed.
The Missouri Compromise