The three parts of the Missouri Compromise were to allow the admission of Missouriinto the Union, prohibit slavery north of the 36 30N line of latitude, and this:

COMPROMISE OF 1850

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The three parts of the Missouri Compromise were to allow the admission of Missouriinto the Union, prohibit slavery north of the 36 30’N line of latitude, and this:

A	Allow the admission of Maine into the Union
B	Allow the admission of Wisconsin into the Union
C	Prohibit slavery north of the Ohio River
D	Prohibit slavery south of the Ohio Rive r

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -The Missouri Compromise was accepted because it: 1) maintained congressional balance in the Senate, 2) allowed for certain new territories to be slave states, and 3) allowed certain new territories to be non-slavery states.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Missouri Compromise of 1820 established the latitude 36°30′ as the northern limit for slavery to be legal in the territories of the west. As part of this compromise, Maine (formerly a part of Massachusetts) was admitted as a free state.

Detailed explanation-3: -Enacted in 1820 to maintain the balance of power in Congress, the Missouri Compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

Detailed explanation-4: -Article 1, Section 2, of the US Constitution supplemented legislative representation in states whose residents owned slaves. Known as the Three-Fifths Clause, or the “federal ratio", three-fifths of the slave population was numerically added to the free population.

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COMPROMISE OF 1850