Mostly because the leaders thought about the future of numerals like say 36 has eventually grown into somthing like 69 which is obviously much more useful.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
It said slavery would be legal South of the line, and illegal North of the line.
The Missouri Compromise provided that no Slave State could be established to the north of a line represented by the parallel 36° 30' coincident with the Southern boundary of Missouri.
1. Missouri and Maine became states.2. The Mason-Dixon line, the line that separated the North and the South, was established across the Southern border of Missouri3. This compromise kept the balance between free and slave states for 30 years.
It was the treaty line in the Missouri Compromise. It determined the status of slavery in the unorganized Louisiana Territory. All land above it was free and all land below it was slave.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
Latitude 36, 30
Crittenden Compromise
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36 degrees 30 minutes
It said that any states above that line had to be free Union States; anything below that line was a Southern slave state.
It said slavery would be legal South of the line, and illegal North of the line.
It was one last attempt at a compromise before the inevitable Civil War. Senator John Crittenden was trying to extend the 36 30 line. the compromise was impossible, but it was one last attempt to save the Union.
It states that any state above the 36 degree 30 minute line is free, not including Missouri.
It states that any state above the 36 degree 30 minute line is free, not including Missouri.
it ran across the border of Mexico