USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Missouri Compromise also proposed that slavery be prohibited above the 36º 30’ latitude line in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory .

Detailed explanation-2: -The “Missouri Compromise” allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, thus keeping the balance of slave and free states equal in Congress.

Detailed explanation-3: -Finally, Congress passed an Act that allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state, and Maine as a free state, therefore keeping the balance of free and slave states equal in Congress.

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.

Detailed explanation-5: -This so-called Missouri Compromise drew a line from east to west along the 36th parallel, dividing the nation into competing halves-half free, half slave. The House passed the compromise bill on March 2, 1820.