The issue was resolved by a two-part compromise. First, Missouri ... a slave state, with a provision that portions of the Louisiana Territory lying north of 36' 30' north latitude would be free.

statesman and orator Henry Clay worked out a compromise of three parts: Maine would separate from Massachusetts and be admitted as a free state; Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state ...

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 kept ... choose for themselves whether they would become slave or free states. This meant the old Missouri Compromise was no longer legal. Southerners loved the ...

In 1820 the Missouri Compromise was passed to sort out this issue. By 1819, the US was made up of 22 states - evenly split between Slave States and Free States. In November 1819, Missouri ...