1. To resolve the conflict between large and small states, Congress was given two houses.
2. To resolve the issue of the extension of slavery into the Louisiana Territory, a line was drawn dividing future free and slave states.
3. To resolve the dispute between free and slave states, each slave was counted as threefifths of a person for purposes of both taxation and representation.
4. To resolve the issue of the admission of California as a free state, a tougher fugitive slave law was enacted.
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The best summary of the Missouri Compromise is:
2. To resolve the issue of the extension of slavery into the Louisiana Territory, a line was drawn dividing future free and slave states.
This compromise, enacted in 1820, allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state while Maine entered as a free state, and it established a line (the 36°30' parallel) to determine the status of slavery in the remaining territories of the Louisiana Purchase.
