[DOC] [TLE] Missouri Compromise - Wikipedia [PAR] The Missouri Compromise was a United States federal statute devised by Henry 
Clay. It regulated slavery in the country's western territories by prohibiting the ... 
To balance the number of "slave states" and "free states," the northern region of ... 
the Missouri Territory to draft a constitution and form a government preliminary to
... [DOC] [TLE] Slave and free states - Wikipedia [PAR] In the history of the United States of America, a slave state was a U.S. state in 
which the ... Five of the Northern self-declared states adopted policies to at least 
... the War of 1812, the British accepted as free all slaves who came into their 
hands, with ... be admitted as a slave state, resulted in the Missouri Compromise 
of 1820,... [DOC] [TLE] Missouri Compromise facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia ... [PAR] Under the agreement, the territory of Missouri was admitted as a slave state, the 
... would give the slave states a majority in the Senate and reduce the Northern ... 
the People of the Missouri Territory to Form a Constitution and State Government, 
... thence west, along that parallel of latitude, to the St. Francis River; thence up,... [DOC] [TLE] Missouri Compromise | United States [1820] | Britannica.com [PAR] Jun 1, 2015 ... Missouri Compromise, (1820), in U.S. history, measure worked out between the 
... caused some northern Democrats to reconsider their support of the Tallmadge 
... free state, Missouri as a slave state, and made free soil all western territories ... 
Missouri Compromise - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up). [DOC] [TLE] Missouri Compromise | HistoryNet [PAR] In 1819, the slaveholding territory of Missouri applied for admission to the Union. 
Northern states opposed it, feeling that Southern slaveholding states held too ... 
lay outside the Old Northwest, added to their fears of the expansion of slavery. ... 
Maine, up to that time a part of Massachusetts, wanted to enter as a free state,... [DOC] [TLE] Before the civil war there were many attempts to try and make both ... [PAR] Aug 7, 2016 ... Before the Missouri compromise there were 11 free states and 11 slave states. ... 
( that territories should be able to chose their form of government) At the same 
time ... because it would give the northern state a majority in the senate. ... to pay 
its debts to Mexico in return for giving up its claims to the territory of... [DOC] [TLE] Missouri Compromise - The Lehrman Institute [PAR] Missouri Compromise. ... to authorize Missouri Territory to form a constitution and 
State government and for the admission of the State into the Union on an equal... [DOC] [TLE] Missouri Compromise - New World Encyclopedia [PAR] Nov 11, 2014 ... The view that the anti-slavery faction and Northern states stood in ... Many 
Southern slaveholders had moved to Missouri territory and ... In the meantime 
Maine (part of Massachusetts at the time) applied for admission as a free state. ... 
The Missouri Compromise and its Aftermath: Slavery & the Meaning of... [DOC] [TLE] States' Rights - Civil War Trust [PAR] This page discusses the issue of states' rights and its role in the coming of the 
Civil War. ... and Massachusetts would not ratify the document without a Bill of 
Rights. ... The Missouri Compromise in 1820 tried to solve the problem but 
succeeded ... Abolitionist groups sprang up in the North, making Southerners feel 
that their... [DOC] [TLE] The Missouri Compromise - Boundless [PAR] Learn more about the missouri compromise in the Boundless open textbook. ... 
One of its main effects was a ban on slavery in new states north of the parallel ... 
the issue of sectional balance in the United States; both northern and southern 
states ... When the status of the Missouri territory was taken up in earnest in the 
U.S.... [DOC] [TLE] Civil War Events Leading to War Timeline - The Civil War Home Page [PAR] ... on men and women by breaking up marriages when they resold husbands and 
wives to ... Massachusetts abolishes slavery and grants voting rights to blacks 
and ... South Carolina and Georgia delegates threatened that

Question: In the Missouri Compromise, Massachusetts gave up its northern territory to form this state
Answer: Maine