Essay On Missouri Compromise

Before the Missouri Compromise there was a lot of tension between the people who were pro-slavery and antislavery. It became more heated after the Missouri’s 1819 request for admission to the Union as a slave state, which threatened to balance between slave and free states. Congress created a two-part compromise, to create peace between the states. They did this by granting Missouri’s request which was admitted as a free state but also passed an amendment that drew an imaginary line across the former Louisiana Territory. This established a boundary between free and slave regions which remained the law of the land until it was nullified by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The Missouri Compromise was pretty much an effort by Congress to help get red rid of the sectional and political rivalries because of the request from Missouri in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted.

had twenty two states, which was evenly divided between slave and free states, however, with the admission of Missouri as a slave state it broke the balance. It also set a precedent for congressional reluctant agreement in the expansion of slavery. Representative James Tallmadge of New York proposed an amendment which would end slavery, during the time Missouri was being organized as a territory but the effort was defeated. The debate of Missouri’s admission occurred for over a year. Northerners would argue that Congress had the power to prohibit slavery and in the new state but the southerners say that they have the freedom to choose whether the state should be a slave state or not. Though after a lot of debate they were finally able to come up with compromise which stated before has two parts. The first part was Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Main would be free. The second part of the compromise is besides Missouri's slavery would be prohibited from the Louisiana Purchase to the north of latitude