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Missouri Compromise
1820

The Great Compromiser, Henry Clay, proposed the following elements of a sectional compromise:

  • That Missouri be admitted to the Union as a slave state (as the population of the territory apparently desired).

  • That slavery was to be prohibited from the new American territories in the Louisiana Purchase north of 36˚30’ north latitude (the southern boundary of Missouri). States to the south of the line (the new Arkansas Territory) would decide the slavery issue for themselves.

  • That Maine (formerly part of Massachusetts) be admitted to the Union as a free state.
Sectional balance was maintained - with the admission of Missouri and Maine there were 12 free states and 12 slave states. This established a precedent that would be followed for the next 30 years. New states would be admitted in tandem—one slave, one free.

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