Congress orchestrated a two-part compromise, granting Missouri's request but also admitting Maine as a free state. It also passed an amendment that drew an imaginary line across the former Louisiana Territory, establishing a boundary between free and slave regions that remained the law of the land until it was negated by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.

1819

The Missouri Compromise The Compromise of 1850 The Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Three-Fifths Compromise, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850,

Emancipation Proclamation

The Missouri Compromise was done in 1820.

The Missouri Compromise decided North and South Power.