According to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, all territory north of 36 degrees 30 minutes latitude will be free of slavery. (The Michigan Territory is already free territory under the 1787 ...
nullified the Missouri Compromise of 1820 (which allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state), and permitted slavery in the territory north of 36° 30´ latitude. The ...
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 kept an uneasy ... idea that the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska would choose for themselves whether they would become slave or free states.