Missouri Compromise
How did the Missouri Compromise transform the nation?
During the years proceeding to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, pressure began to rise between people who wanted and didn't want slaves factions within the U.S. Congress and all over the country. They came to a boiling point after Missouri’s 1819 desire for entry to the Union as a slave state, which threatened to agitate the fragile equity between slave states and free states. To keep things at peace, Congress came up with a compromise that has two parts, which is permitting Missouri’s request but also accepting Maine as a free state. There was an imaginary line drawn in between Louisiana territory, to show which part of the region is a free and slave state. That became the law until it was abolished by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. The Missouri Compromise was an attempt made by Congress to diminish the sectional and political struggles started off by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for acceptance as a state in which slavery would be consented. There was a enormous debate whether there should be slave or free states. Senator Rufus King stated that congress had the power to stop slavery in a new state and Senator William Pinkney explained that states have the freedom to choose which they want. A compromise bill was worked out because of the house and senate creating to different bills. The Missouri Compromise was still being criticized by the northern and southerners. The Union was held together for more than thirty years because of the act. It was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which settled favored sovereignty regarding slavery in Kansas and Nebraska, though both were north of the compromise line. In the Dred Scott case stated that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. on the terms that Congress was restricted by the Fifth Amendment from dismantling individuals of private property without due process of law.