Question

3. Why was the Missouri Compromise important in dealing with California becoming a state?

Answer 1

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Step-by-step explanation:

The Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional in Dred Scott v. Sandford. What was a major result of the Missouri Compromise? It temporarily relieved sectional differences. Missouri became a slave state, and Maine became a free state. California becomes a free state, Fugitive Slave law is adopted.

Answer 2

Answer: It admitted California as a free state, left Utah and New Mexico to decide for themselves whether to be a slave state or a free state, defined a new Texas-New Mexico boundary, and made it easier for slaveowners to recover runways under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850