prohibition of future slave states north of the Arkansas-Missouri border
which was not a part of the Missouri compromise.
Explanation:
- prohibition of future slave states north of the Arkansas-Missouri border which was not a part of the Missouri compromise.
- The children of slaves already in Missouri were to be freed at age twenty-five was the action which was not a part of the Missouri compromise.
- In an effort to preserve the balance of power in the Congress between the slaves and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 and admitting the Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
- Other compromises of the Missouri provisions are,
- California enters the Union as a free state.
- The Mexican lands will be divided into the two territories; New Mexico and Utah.
- Popular sovereignty will decide whether they will be the slave or set free.