The Missouri Compromise was a deal encouraged by Henry Clay in 1820 to let the state of Missouri enter the Union. Since the balance of free and slave states would be broken, Maine separated from Massachusetts and became another state. Maine was admitted into the Union, therefore, the number of free and slave states stayed equal. The compromise also stated that no slavery would be allowed above the 36 30 parallel. Afterwards in 1854, the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act which opened the Kansas and Nebraska Territories to slavery. Kansas and Nebraska had the choice and voted on whether or not they were going to be slave states. They finally decided to be slave states which unbalanced the number of free and slave states in Congress.
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