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They gained Missouri as a slave holding state as well as the land below the 36°30' parallel known as the Arkansas Territory. They lost the chance to admit more slave holding states besides what they owned in the small territory due to the Missouri Compromise Line.
It said that any states above that line had to be free Union States; anything below that line was a Southern slave state.
It took place at the line of missouri and was invented to keep the north and south from going to war by having all new states above the line were slave free and all the states below the line had slaves but this rule was eventually broken with the addition of California into the union in 1850 because the Missouri compromise line went through california
It would allow slavery to spread north of the line established by the Missouri compromise. - Novanet
The most correct line was the Missouri Compromise Line.
It said slavery would be legal South of the line, and illegal North of the line.
It was the treaty line in the Missouri Compromise. It determined the status of slavery in the unorganized Louisiana Territory. All land above it was free and all land below it was slave.
the Missouri Compromise of 1820
They gained Missouri as a slave holding state as well as the land below the 36°30' parallel known as the Arkansas Territory. They lost the chance to admit more slave holding states besides what they owned in the small territory due to the Missouri Compromise Line.
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.
A compromise in 1820 that drew an imaginary line. Above that line slavery was banned but below it slavery was legal and lasted until 1850.
It said that any states above that line had to be free Union States; anything below that line was a Southern slave state.
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.
It took place at the line of missouri and was invented to keep the north and south from going to war by having all new states above the line were slave free and all the states below the line had slaves but this rule was eventually broken with the addition of California into the union in 1850 because the Missouri compromise line went through california
1. Missouri will be admitted as a slave state 2. Maine will be admitted as a free state 3. Any territory within the Louisiana Purchase above the Missouri Compromise Line (parallel 36' 30) will be admitted as a free state. 4. Any territory within the Louisiana Purchase below the Missouri Compromise Line will be admitted as a slave state. There's no fifth point.
The Missouri Compromise was nullified by the new Compromise of 1850 - caused by the admission of California, which extended a long way on either side of the Missouri line, and rendered it obsolete.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820