It did not completely solve the issue of sectionalism throughout the nation. This was later solved through many other compromises.
The Missouri Compromise postponed the issue of slavery.
The ageing Thomas Jefferson thought it was only a superficial solution, and that it would one day split the nation in two.
The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to be admitted in the Union as a slave state.The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to be admitted into the Union as a slave state.
The Missouri Compromise only affected those territories acquired from France in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. After the Mexican War, the vast new territories like California did not fall under the provisions of the Compromise.
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Lincoln was only 11 years old when then Missouri Compromise was made. I doubt that he had any strong feelings about it. He did not regularly go the school-- he may not even have heard about it at the time.
No new slave-states North of the parallel that marked Missouri's Southern border. But this only applied to the territories acquired from France in the Louisiana Purchase. After the Mexican War, a new compromise had to be worked out.
Missouri entered the union as a slave state, Maine entered the union as a free state, it was compromised that there would be no more slave states above the 36th parallel(Missouri was to be the only exception)
It admitted Maine, the northern region of what was then Massachusetts, into the Union as a separate (free) state. The reason this was done was to balance the number of "slave states" and "free states." This only occurred as a result of a compromise involving slavery in Missouri, and in the federal territories of the American west.
Many abolitionists refused to support the Missouri Compromise because it allowed for the expansion of slavery into new territories, which went against their goal of ending slavery altogether. They believed that compromising on the issue would only serve to perpetuate the institution of slavery.
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The parallel that lined-up with Missouri's Southern border (36,30). This was the clear 'line in the sand' that kept the peace for thirty years. But it only applied to the territories acquired under the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. When Ameriica acquired vast new territories from Mexico, a new compromise had to be worked out. This one did not last.