The Northern states were opposed to the Missouri Compromise of 1820. They felt Missouri should not be a slave state as it would give the South more power.
The compromises that the Northern and Southern states reached were the Great Compromise and the Three-Fifths Compromise.~A.K. =)
Abraham Lincoln supported the Missouri compromise :p
In 1820 to 1821, Henry Clay engineered the Missouri Compromise. The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 by the United States Congress.
Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
Missouri Compromise was signed in 1820s. The Compromise of 1850 was signed in the 1850s
Missouri compromise
The northerners protests DouglasÕs plan to repeal the Missouri Compromise because it would have made slavery legal in the northern territories. The Missouri Compromise had outlawed slavery in territories and new states above the Missouri Compromise line.
The Missouri Compromise provided that no Slave State could be established to the north of a line represented by the parallel 36° 30' coincident with the Southern boundary of Missouri.
Basically the Missouri Compromise of 1850 was a fair compromise. One problem for Northern abolitionists was that the Compromise ushered in the Fugitive Slave Act. They were outraged that the new compromise included this law.
Northern and southern states
The Missouri Compromise was created on March 19, 1820. It was an attempt to retain the balance of power between the northern and southern states. It was repealed by the Kansas Nebraska Act.
The Missouri Compromise The Compromise of 1850 The Kansas-Nebraska Act.
it says that slavery was not allowed there
Slavery. It established a parallel, North of which slavery was illegal.
Northern and southern states
Three-Fifths Compromise, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Emancipation Proclamation
slavery was prohibited in the northern part of the louisiana purchase