The Missouri Compromise of 1820 resulted in the admission of Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. This was done to maintain the balance between slave and free states in the Union. The compromise also established a line (the 36°30′ parallel) above which slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Territory, except for Missouri.
it stop slavery in most of the states
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The Missouri Compromise allowed Maine and Missouri to enter the United States. Maine would be a free states, while Missouri would be a slave state.
They felt the Union should be preserved. They felt that, by states leaving the Union, they were violating the agreement that formed the United States, that the rebel secessionists were, in fact, committing treason.
The slave-owning states (South) and the Union (North).
compromise of 1820
compromise of 1820
compromise of 1820
The Kentucky senator John J. Crittenden on Dec. 18, 1860.
it stop slavery in most of the states
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Seceded it.
The Crittenden Compromise was the name given to the attempt in 1860 to get Southern states to stay in the Union.
The Crittenden Compromise was the name given to the attempt in 1860 to get Southern states to stay in the Union.