What did the Missouri Compromise say about states that joined the union above the southern line of Missouri?

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Tate Sutton

4 December, 11:39

What did the Missouri Compromise say about states that joined the union above the southern line of Missouri?

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Asa Woodward · Answer 1

nswer: Missouri would be admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

There was great tension and pressure in the mid-1800s to keep the balance of free and slave states equal. But eventually comprises stopped working and the Civil War was fought.