• Northerners were against adding Missouri to the union as a slave state because it would disrupt the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states.
• Missouri was admitted to the union as a slave state, and Maine was admitted as a free state.
• An imaginary line was drawn across the southern border of Missouri at the latitude 36 30'N.
• Slavery was allowed in the part of the Louisiana Purchase south of the 36 30'N.
• Slavery was banned north of 36 30'N, except for Missouri.
Sectionalism – loyalty to a state or section rather than to the whole country.
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