The Missouri Compromise was enacted in 1820 and mostly affected the pro and anti-slavery states. It was made to balance the free and slave states. It also banned slavery from the Louisiana Territory, not including Missouri. Because of this, Massachusetts was separated from the top portion of the state that was then called Maine, and became a new free state. In 1819 James Tallmadge offered a Amendment called the Tallmadge Amendment, this made it so that slaves were not allowed in Missouri and that all the children born in this state under a slave shall be freed at the age of 25.
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