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The Mississippi Compromise was passed in 1820 to resolve the ever-growing problem of maintaining the balance between free and slave states in the United States.

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The forced Congress to decide if slavery would be allowed in regions west of the Mississippi.?

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The Missouri Compromise forbid the expansion of slavery west of the Mississippi?

True


Forced congress to decide if slavery would be allowed in regions west of the mississippi?

missouri compromise


A us senator from Mississippi who supported the compromise of 1850?

A prominent U.S. senator from Mississippi who supported the Compromise of 1850 was Jefferson Davis. He played a key role in the negotiations that aimed to ease tensions between slave and free states. The Compromise included provisions such as the admission of California as a free state and the strengthening of the Fugitive Slave Act, which were controversial and had lasting impacts on the nation's sectional conflicts. Davis's support for the compromise reflected his commitment to preserving the Union at that time.


What states was slavery legal in after the Missouri Compromise?

After the Missouri Compromise of 1820, slavery was legal in states that were south of the compromise line (36°30’ parallel), such as Arkansas, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. This line permitted slavery in states below it while prohibiting it in states above it.


True or false The Missouri Compromise forbid the expansion of slavery west of the Mississippi?

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.


What was the compromise that had Missouri enter the union as a slave state?

The compromise of 1820 allowed the state of Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state in exhange for Maine entering as a free state. The compromise also stated that any state west of the Mississippi River would enter as a free state.


What compromise lead to the civil war?

the Missouri compromise, the 3/5 compromise, and the compromise of 1850 no it was thethe Missouri compromise, the 3/5 compromise, and the compromise of 1850


What is an agreement reached in which each side gives up something that it wants?

It is called a compromise. Examples are the Great Compromise, and the Three-Fifths Compromise.


Henry clay's compromise became known as what?

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


What did The Missouri Compromise have on the civil war in St. Louis?

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.


What is the correct chronological order of these eventsCompromise of 1850, Three-Fifths Compromise, Missouri Compromise,Emancipation Proclamation?

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