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- Main purpose: to preserve the balance between slave and free states and calm sectional tension over slavery’s expansion after Missouri asked to join the Union (1820).
- Who proposed it: primarily Henry Clay (the “Great Compromiser”).
- What it did / who it applied to: admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, and prohibited slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of latitude 36°30′ (except Missouri).
- Who benefited: politically it temporarily satisfied both Northern and Southern lawmakers (North got a limit on slavery’s expansion; South kept Missouri as a slave state). It did not benefit enslaved people and was only a temporary fix—later undermined by the Kansas‑Nebraska Act (1854) and Dred Scott (1857).
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- Main purpose: to preserve the balance between slave and free states and calm sectional tension over slavery’s expansion after Missouri asked to join the Union (1820).
- Who proposed it: primarily Henry Clay (the “Great Compromiser”).
- What it did / who it applied to: admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, and prohibited slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of latitude 36°30′ (except Missouri).
- Who benefited: politically it temporarily satisfied both Northern and Southern lawmakers (North got a limit on slavery’s expansion; South kept Missouri as a slave state). It did not benefit enslaved people and was only a temporary fix—later undermined by the Kansas‑Nebraska Act (1854) and Dred Scott (1857).
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