Missouri Compromise - Wikipedia The Missouri Compromise [a] (also known as the Compromise of 1820) was federal legislation of the United States that balanced the desires of northern states to prevent the expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states to expand it
Missouri Compromise | Summary, Map, Significance | Britannica Missouri Compromise, measure worked out in 1820 between the North and the South and passed by the U S Congress that allowed for admission of Missouri as the 24th state It marked the beginning of the prolonged sectional conflict over the extension of slavery that led to the American Civil War
Missouri Compromise (1820) | National Archives In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional in its Dred Scott v Sandford decision The document featured here is the conference committee's report on the Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 - American History Central The Missouri Compromise was an agreement reached in 1820 between Northern and Southern states in the United States that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state It established the 36°30′ parallel as the dividing line between slave states and free states in the Louisiana Purchase Territory
Missouri Compromise: Primary Documents in American History Enacted in 1820 to maintain the balance of power in Congress, the Missouri Compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state This guide compiles Library of Congress digital materials, external websites, and a print bibliography
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 - History - History on the Net The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was the legislation that provided for the admission of Maine to the United States as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state, thus maintaining the balance of power between North and South in the United States Senate