The Missouri Compromise (March 6, 1820) was United States federal legislation that stopped northern attempts to forever prohibit slavery’s expansion by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state in exchange for legislation which prohibited slavery north of the 36°30′ parallel except for Missouri.
Q. What was the plan that preserved the balance between slave and free states?
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
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- Q. What was the plan that preserved the balance between slave and free states?
- Q. Was the Missouri Compromise preserved the balance between slave states and free states?
- Q. What happened in the Missouri Compromise?
- Q. Why did the South agree to the Missouri Compromise?
- Q. What were the three parts of the Missouri Compromise Why was it important for both the north and south to have the balance of states equal at 12?
- Q. What event in 1859 increased tension between the North and the South?
Q. Was the Missouri Compromise preserved the balance between slave states and free states?
The Missouri Compromise preserved the balance between slave and free states in the Senate. The Northerners did not want slavery expansion and the Southerners did. So Missouri entered as a slave state while Maine entered as a free state.
Q. What happened in the Missouri Compromise?
On March 3, 1820, Congress passed a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th parallel, which runs approximately along the southern border of Missouri. …
Q. Why did the South agree to the Missouri Compromise?
The South would control the Senate and would be one step closer to legalizing slavery in states newly admitted to the Union. Because of their fears, Northern members of the United States Congress refused Missouri admittance to the United States as a slave state.
Q. What were the three parts of the Missouri Compromise Why was it important for both the north and south to have the balance of states equal at 12?
The Missouri Compromise was accepted because it: 1) maintained congressional balance in the Senate, 2) allowed for certain new territories to be slave states, and 3) allowed certain new territories to be non-slavery states. Thus, the Compromise appealed in some measure to both the Southerners and Northerners.
Q. What event in 1859 increased tension between the North and the South?
The issue of slavery caused tension between the North and the South. In the North, the antislavery movement had slowly been gaining strength since the 1830s. Abolitionists believed that slavery was unjust and should be abolished immediately.
