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The Missouri Compromise was the first attempt to ease the looming crisis over slavery. It effectively prevented the spread of slavery into new states but did nothing to eliminate slavery in current slave states.
it was rejected by congress and the president.
Southern states relied on slaves for their cotton production which was vital to their survival .
Because it could have allowed both those states to practise slavery, in contravention of the Missouri Compromise. (By 1854, it was getting much more difficult to create new slave-states at all.)
The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 and designated where slavery would be allowed when a new state entered the union. This line was also called the Mason-Dixon line.