USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Missouri territorial legislature approved this compromise in June 1821, and Congress granted Missouri statehood . President James Monroe signed the federal legislation August 10, 1821, officially making Missouri the 24th state in the union.

Detailed explanation-2: -The southeastern portion of the Missouri Territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Missouri on August 10, 1821. St. Louis was the capital of the Missouri Territory.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Congress established Maine as the 23rd state under the Missouri Compromise of 1820. This arrangement allowed Maine to join the Union as a free state, with Missouri entering a year later as a slave state, thereby preserving the numerical balance between free and slave states in the nation.