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The Missouri Compromise maintained the balance between slave and free states.
Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
Missouri Compromise
In 1820 to 1821, Henry Clay engineered the Missouri Compromise. The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 by the United States Congress.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was a compromise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in Congress agreeing to prohibit slavery in states north of the parallel 36°30' north except in the state of Missouri. Additionally, the state of Maine was allowed to join the Union as a free state. This compromise was passed due to concerns of the creation of the state of Missouri destroying the delicate balance between slave states and free states in Congress.
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise helped prevent the civil war by equalling the power in between free states(NORTH)and slave states(SOUTH)
The Missouri Compromise maintained the balance between slave and free states.
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The border between slave states and free states
There were 12 slave states after the Missouri Compromise and 12 free states.
From the Compromise of 1790 that created the atmosphere of "slave states" (Northern states would not raise objections to Southern slavery) in order to create Washington DC as the nation's permanent government home, to the Missouri Compromise (1820), that actually regulated slavery in the Western territories, such as the Louisiana and Missouri Territories (hence the naming convention) to the Compromise of 1850, that extended the basic agreement for dividing US expansion territory between free and slave states, no one
Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
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