SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
DRED SCOTT
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Allowed Maine to join the Union as a free state
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Gave the Southwest Territories Popular Sovereignty
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Allowed Missouri to join the Union as a slave state
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It created the Missouri Compromise Line
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Missouri Compromise did not extend the practice of slavery into the Northwest Territory .
Detailed explanation-2: -The Missouri Compromise did not extend the practice of slavery into the Northwest Territory.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Though the Missouri Compromise managed to keep the peace-for the moment-it failed to resolve the pressing question of slavery and its place in the nation’s future.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.