USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Controversy arose within Congress over the issue of slavery. Congress adopted this legislation and admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time, so that the balance between slave and free states in the nation would remain equal.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1854, the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Three years later the Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision, which ruled that Congress did not have the authority to prohibit slavery in the territories.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -SLAVERY IN MISSOURI Missouri attracted slave owners because slavery had been allowed in the area under French and Spanish rule. Later, as American settlers came to the lands opened up by the Louisiana Purchase, a blending of cultures created a unique economic and social system that included slavery.

Detailed explanation-5: -Missouri’s application opened a political firestorm over the spread of slavery in the new western territories and disrupted the balance of free and slave states. There were 22 states in the Union, 11 free and 11 slave states.