Did The Missouri Compromise cause the southern states to leave the union?

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2026-08-19 23:00

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No.

The Compromise allowed the Missouri territory to join the USA as a slave-state.

The condition was that there should be no more new slave-states North of the parallel that marked Missouri's Southern border.

This represented a clear 'line in the sand' that kept the peace for thirty years, until the admission of California made the Compromise inoperable.

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