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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, but prohibited slavery north of the 36°30' parallel in the Louisiana Territory. This line separated free and slave territories in the territory acquired through the Louisiana Purchase.
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The factor used to decide whether an area could be open to slavery under the Missouri Compromise was its geographical location. This compromise established a line at latitude 36°30' where slavery would be permitted south of the line and prohibited north of it, with the exception of Missouri.
Democracy is a series of compromises. The three most important compromises that pertain to slavery and territory are: the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 admitted Missouri into the union as a slave state and admitted Maine as a free one. It is also stated that any land in the Lousiana Purchase, south of the latitude 36 degrees thirty was open to slavery; and slavery was prohibited in any territory north of the specified latitude. The Compromise of 1850 was proposed by Henry Clay to deal with the issue of slavery in the lands acquired from Mexico from the Mexican war. The compromise proposed admitting California into the union as a free state, prohibiting slave trade in the District of Columbia, enforcing a strong fugitive slave law, and admitting the the enlarged New Mexican territory on the basis of popular sovereignty. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 repealed the Missouri compromise declaring it unconsitutional because it violated the Fifth Amendment, or the right to property. This act also proposed to apply popular sovereignty to Kansas and Nebraska.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 established a critical balance between free and slave states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also drew a line at the 36°30′ latitude, designating the territory north of this line as free and the territory south of it as open to slavery. This division effectively reshaped the political landscape of the United States, intensifying the sectional conflict that would eventually lead to the Civil War. The compromise influenced westward expansion and the future admission of states, impacting the overall map of the nation.
The Compromise of 1850 was a series of measures adopted by the US Congress on September 9, 1850, prior to the Civil War, to address slavery and territory issues, and to stop secession by the South. Proposed largely by Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky, it included several measures to ensure a balance between free and slave states. It admitted California to the Union as a free state, and from the remaining land acquired in the Mexican War (1846-48), it established Utah and New Mexico as territories with an open status of slavery, a measure that overruled the Missouri Compromise.
New Mexico and Utah
It admitted California to the Union as a free state, and from the remaining land acquired in the Mexican War (1846-48), it established Utah and New Mexico as territories with an open status of slavery, a measure that overruled the Missouri Compromise.
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A series of measures adopted by the Congress on September 9, 1850, prior to the Civil War, to address slavery and territory issues and to avert secession by the South. Proposed largely by Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky, it included several measures to ensure a balance between free and slave states. It admitted California to the Union as a free state, and from the remaining land acquired in the Mexican War (1846-48), it established Utah and New Mexico as territories with an open status of slavery, a measure that overruled the Missouri Compromise.
Senators from the Northern states also objected to the spread of slavery and the admission of any other slave states into the Union. At the time Missouri asked for admission into the Union, the Senate was equally divided with eleven free states and eleven slave states. The new state of Missouri would add two members to the Senate, thereby giving the slave states a majority in the Senate. The Northern senators also feared that, if Missouri were accepted as a slave state, all of the Louisiana territory might be open for slavery. The Southern states were concerned about prohibition of slavery in the Louisiana territory.