Explain Missouri Compromise

The Missouri Compromise was an effort to balance the power between slave and free states in Congress. The law admitted Maine into the union as a free state and admitted Missouri as a slave state. With the exception of Missouri, it prohibited slavery north of the 36°'30 latitude line. It has passed in 1820 but repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854.

answer; slavery should be outlawed in the new country, was part of the initial draft of the declaration of independence, but not part of the final

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