The Missouri Compromise was a Line that was put in place to help decide whether the new territory will be a slave state or a free state. To make this easier the Missouri Compromise was placed. The line was the 36 degree 30'. Any thing north of this line was a free state and anything below it became a free state. The south wasn't to found of this because they the states would not be equal.
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