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results Authors: United States. Congress Date: March 1, 1820
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 36 degrees 30 minutes latitude line
in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory. With the purchase
of the Louisiana Territory and the application of Missouri for
statehood, the long-standing balance between the number of slave
states and the number of free states would be changed.
Controversy arose within Congress over the issue of slavery.
Congress adopted this legislation and admitted Missouri as a
slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time, so
that the balance between slave and free states in the nation
would remain equal. The Missouri