It allowed the territory of Missouri to join the USA as a slave-state.
Check out this quote from Wikipedia on the Missouri Compromise (which, I'm assuming is what you need more information on): "Controversy over whether Missouri should be admitted as a slave state, resulted in the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which specified that Louisiana Purchase territory north of latitude 36° 30', which described Missouri's southern boundary, would be organized as free states and territory south of that line would be reserved for organization as slave states. As part of that compromise, the admission of Maine as a free state was secured to balance Missouri's admission as a slave state."
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.
The state that entered the US in 1820 as a slave state was Missouri. This was resulting from the Missouri Compromise, or otherwise known as the Compromise of 1820. This compromise stated that slavery in the Louisiana Territory and north of the 36°30' line was all free. Since Missouri was admitted as a free state, Maine was admitted as a free state in order to create an equal balance of free to slave states.
the Missouri Compromise
It allowed the territory of Missouri to join the USA as a slave-state.
The Missouri Compromise dealt with the expansion of slavery into the western territory (previously known as the Louisiana Territory).
Maine became a state where slavery was forbidden at the same time that Missouri became a slave state.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. The Compromise ruled that any territory north of 36 30 latitude would be free and below it would be slave.
Check out this quote from Wikipedia on the Missouri Compromise (which, I'm assuming is what you need more information on): "Controversy over whether Missouri should be admitted as a slave state, resulted in the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which specified that Louisiana Purchase territory north of latitude 36° 30', which described Missouri's southern boundary, would be organized as free states and territory south of that line would be reserved for organization as slave states. As part of that compromise, the admission of Maine as a free state was secured to balance Missouri's admission as a slave state."
Maine. Missouri would enter as a slave state, and rest of the Louisiana Territory latitude 36o30' slavery was prohibited.
No. The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave-state, on condition that there would be no more slave-states North of the parallel that marked Missouri's Southern border.
Missouri & Maine. APEX.
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.
The Missouri Compromise was when Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
Missouri was a slave state. Maryland and Kentucky were slave states.
The state that entered the US in 1820 as a slave state was Missouri. This was resulting from the Missouri Compromise, or otherwise known as the Compromise of 1820. This compromise stated that slavery in the Louisiana Territory and north of the 36°30' line was all free. Since Missouri was admitted as a free state, Maine was admitted as a free state in order to create an equal balance of free to slave states.