The Missouri Compromise was a compromise because it worked out an argument. There were 11 free states and 11 slave states. Then Missouri came in and made it 12 slave states and 11 free states. They...
All Missouri Territory north of the parallel 36°30' north excluded slavery with the exception of the portion that was the proposed state of Missouri. It also allowed the Arkansas Territory to have...
The Missouri compromise had something to do with allowing Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state and everything south of the Louisiana purchase was slave states and north of the Missouri...
This was meant to settle the question of slavery in the Western territories that were applying to become states of the Union.It was agreed to draw one line of latitude, North of which slavery would...