Answer:
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 balanced the states in America by dividing it based on favoring and those opposing slavery.
Explanation:
The Missouri compromise introduced in America to deal with the growing of the slavery states in the western territories. In the North, people have always considered slavery as a part of the evil practice which should be banned. As the South economy depended on slaves, the Union could not disrupt it in existing states. The compromise introduced in 1820 which divided the Louisiana Purchase land into two parts. Slavery became forbidden above the Missouri compromise line latitude 36°30 and admitted south of latitude. Maine entered as a free state under Union where Missouri became a slave trade.
