Question

Summarize the Missouri Compromise

Answer 1

The Missouri Compromise, passed in 1820, was a legislative agreement between slaveholding and non-slaveholding states in the United States. It allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state while Maine entered as a free state, maintaining the balance between slave and free states in Congress. Additionally, it prohibited slavery north of the 36°30’ parallel in the Louisiana Purchase territory. This compromise helped temporarily ease tensions over the issue of slavery in the United States.