True. Maine would be admitted as a free state and Missouri as a slave state, maintaining the balance between free and slave states in the Senate.
False. Maine was admitted in 1820.
True. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 attempted to settle the issue of slavery in newly acquired territories by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while also establishing a line at 36°30' latitude where slavery would be prohibited in future states north of it. However, the underlying tensions over slavery eventually led to its unraveling.
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False. The Missouri Compromise was meant to lay down the boundary for the new states. Anywhere North of that parallel was free soil. South of it could be slave-states.
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Maine entered the US as a free state. The state was carved out of territory ceded from Massachusetts. This was part of the 1820 Missouri Compromise. This act allowed Missouri to enter the US as a slave state. In order to keep the balance between free and slave states intact. And, so Maine was created as a free state.
No, the Missouri Compromise did not involve whether the Missouri River would be the border of the state. Instead, it was an agreement made in 1820 to address the balance of free and slave states in the Union. The compromise allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state while Maine entered as a free state, and it established a line at latitude 36°30′ north to determine the future status of slavery in other territories.
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