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The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to allow the state to enter as a slave state. At the time there was 22 states and they were evenly divided between slave and free. Admission of Missouri as a slave state would upset the balance of power and set a movement towards the expansion of slavery. This debate ran from December 1819 to March 1820 until the compromise was worked out. The compromise stated that Missouri would come in slave while Maine would come in free and except for Missouri slavery would be excluded from the Louisiana Purchase lands north of latitude 36 30'.
This plan was criticized by many southerners because it would establish a principle that Congress could make laws regarding slavery and the north felt it gave into slavery. Yet, this help hold the union together for more than 30 years until it was repealed by the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854. Three years later in the Dred Scot case the Supreme Court found the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional on the grounds that Congress was prohibited by the Fifth Amendment from depriving individuals of private property without due process of law. I think it worked for a time and conditions made it so it couldn't work.
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What war was caused by the Missouri Compromise?
None. It was a successful compromise that kept the peace for thirty years.
Who supported the Missouri Compromise?
Abraham Lincoln supported the Missouri compromise :p
Who engineered The Missouri Compromise?
In 1820 to 1821, Henry Clay engineered the Missouri Compromise. The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 by the United States Congress.
What agreement allowed Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state?
Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What occurred first in history Missouri Compromise Bonus Bill Compromise of 1850 or the American system?
Missouri Compromise was signed in 1820s. The Compromise of 1850 was signed in the 1850s
What war was caused by the Missouri Compromise?
None. It was a successful compromise that kept the peace for thirty years.
The Missouri Compromise ended slavery in the South?
No - in the North. It banned slavery anywhere North of the parallel that marked Missouri's Southern border. This was a successful compromise which kept the peace for thirty years.
Henry clay's compromise became known as what?
The Missouri Compromise The Compromise of 1850 The Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is the correct chronological order of these eventsCompromise of 1850, Three-Fifths Compromise, Missouri Compromise,Emancipation Proclamation?
Three-Fifths Compromise, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Emancipation Proclamation
How can you make a sentence with Missouri Compromise?
The Missouri Compromise was done in 1820. The Missouri Compromise decided North and South Power.
The question about Missouri's admission to the Union and how it was solved was called the?
Missouri compromise
What was the time period of the Missouri compromise?
The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820.
What considedrations prompted the Missouri compromise and why did it fail?
why was the Missouri compromise written?
What compromise lead to the civil war?
the Missouri compromise, the 3/5 compromise, and the compromise of 1850 no it was thethe Missouri compromise, the 3/5 compromise, and the compromise of 1850
Were did the Missouri compromise happen?
missouri missouri
Henry Clays compromise became known as?
The Maine, Missouri, Clay's, or Henry's compromise
The Missouri compromise determined that Missouri could become a state if?
the Missouri compromise determined that Missouri could become a state if
