Was Missouri a Free State?
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...
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.
When did Missouri became a free state?
In 1820, amid growing sectional tensions over the issue of slavery, the U.S. Congress passed a law that admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while banning slavery from the remaining Louisiana Purchase lands located north of the 36º 30' parallel.
Was Missouri a free state before the Civil War?
A slave state since statehood in 1821, Missouri's geographic position in the center of the country and at the rural edge of the American frontier ensured that it remained a divisive battleground for competing Northern and Southern ideologies in the years preceding the war.
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