USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was a law that tried to address growing sectional tensions over the issue of slavery. By passing the law, which President James Monroe signed, the U.S. Congress admitted Missouri to the Union as a state that allowed slavery, and Maine as a free state .

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Court proclaimed the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional, asserting that Congress did not have the authority to abolish slavery in the territories. Eventually, the North and South’s vastly different views on the moral issue of slavery led to the outbreak of the Civil War.

Detailed explanation-5: -The South feared that if another slave-free state was admitted, then Congress would have a majority in favor of abolishing slavery. The Missouri compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, thus preserving the balance of power between the North and the South.