Missouri Compromise Line Map

Congress passed a law that admitted missouri to the union as a. Congress devised a two part compromise. Missouri compromise 1820 click on map to enlarge.

An 1865 map of the missouri compromise provisions. Map to reflect the following: The missouri compromise (march 3, 1820) was a 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 in the remaining louisiana purchase lands north of the 36°30′ parallel.

It granted missouri statehood as a slave state and admitted maine as a free state, restoring the.

The argument of whether missouri was to be a pro. History, measure worked out between the north and the south and passed by the u.s. Rather than apply for admission, as a free state, or apply as a slave state with all territory challenging the missouri compromise, the northern border was established at the line of 36 degrees, 30 minutes. Free states, free territory, slave states, slave territory, unorganized territory.