Question

The Missouri Compromise ended the slave trade, but how was the balance of power maintained?

Alabama would have to wait to become a slave state
Maine separated from Massachusetts and applied for statehood as a free state.
No other states of the Lousiana Purchase could become slave states.
The population of Missouri could never exceed 10,000 people

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The Missouri Compromise ended the slave trade, but how was the balance of power maintained? Maine separated from Massachusetts and applied for statehood as a free state. ... The Missouri Compromise opened some of the Louisiana Purchase to slavery except for land found where?