The Missouri Compromise

The Missouri compromise was the idea that they were I think it was 22 states and there were 11 who were slavery states and the 11 who were anti slavery states are free states. The problem was is that they all meet in the federal government and right there they've got a balance of power at least insofar as the senators go right because there's two senators from each state. So Henry Clay comes up with a compromise because right there they're deadlocked Missouri cannot become a state. If nobody can become a state because either they're going to be slave states or free states. And he says okay here's the compromise: anytime a slave state comes into the union a free state has to come into the