The Missouri Compromise of 1820 attempted to address the contentious issue of slavery's expansion into new territories by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while establishing a line that prohibited slavery north of the 36°30′ parallel. Although it temporarily eased tensions, it ultimately highlighted the deepening divide between the North and South over slavery. The compromise's failure to provide a lasting solution and subsequent events, such as the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the rise of abolitionist sentiment, further exacerbated sectional conflicts, contributing to the onset of the Civil War.
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The US Civil War was delayed by the Missouri Compromise, but not avoided,
The Missouri Compromise maintained the balance between slave and free states.
The Misouri Compromise of 1820 delayed the Civil War for a generation. It was undone by the Compromise of 1850, and barely ten years after the end of the Missouri Compromise disunion and war came.
Sectionalism and the Missouri compromise was related in such a way that slavery was the primary issue. This led to Civil War.?æ
There was no Civil War while the Missouri Compromise was in force. It kept the peace for thirty years. It was the debate over the admission of California, following the Mexican War, that made the Missouri Compromise inoperable (because the new state extended so far on either side of the line) and a new Compromise had to be worked out. This one did not last.
41 years
The Missouri Compromise helped prevent the civil war by equalling the power in between free states(NORTH)and slave states(SOUTH)
The Missouri Compromise made slavery illegal in much of the US, except for the state of Missouri. Some people believe that this made the Civil War erupt later than it would have without the compromise.
The Missouri compromise made Missouri a slave state and so naturally put it into the Confederate camp when the Civil War broke out. Free state Illinois is just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis so there many ties with the Union as well.
If you date it from the Missouri Compromise (1820), the answer is forty-one years.