What Is The Missouri Compromise In 1860

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The Missouri Compromise in March 3, 1820 passed which allowed Missouri to be a slave state and Maine became a free state. The Wilmot Proviso was designed to eliminate slavery. The President then (James K. Polk) thought after the Mexican war began the appropriation of $2 million dollars was part of a bill to negotiate the terms of a treaty. The Congress got the slavery issue under control and California entered the Union as a free nonslavery state by the Compromise in 1850.
On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln became president of the USA.The south wasn’t happy about that. The reason they were upset was because they wanted to expand their slave territory. They knew if Lincoln became president that they would eventually be outnumbered by non-slave