USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -This legislation admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time, so as not to upset the balance between slave and free states in the nation. It also outlawed slavery above the 36º 30’ latitude line in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Missouri Compromise was ineffective in dealing with the issue of slavery because it increased sectionalism between Northern and Southern states. Instead of solving this issue of slavery in new territories Congress only increased the tension between North and South.

Detailed explanation-3: -True. In what way did the Kansas-Nebraska Act change a part of the Missouri Compromise? It allowed people of each territory decide whether it should be free or slave, because both Nebraska and Kansas were north of the Missouri Compromise line and they both should have been free under the Missouri Compromise.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1854, the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.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.