| 密蘇里協定 The Missouri Compromise
「密蘇里協定」中，參議會和議會代表協議出讓麻塞諸塞州最北疆域、申請加入美國聯邦成為非奴隸州，並以緬因州命名，而密蘇里州則為認可奴隸制度的州加入聯邦政府。
在緬因州與密蘇里州加入聯邦政府後，認同奴隸制度與廢除奴隸制度的州都各有十二個，避免了南方在參議院中擁有過多席次（每一州在參議院有兩名代表），超過北方州的代表人數；另外，奴隸制度的施行與否也成為密蘇里州南方邊境與路易斯安那州的分野。門羅在1820年3月6日簽署了因應該協定所制訂的國會法案。
您知道新英格蘭居民對此案的看法嗎？
In what came to be known as the Missouri Compromise, the Senate and House of Representatives worked out a deal that allowed Massachusetts' northernmost counties to apply for admission to the Union as a nonslave state called Maine while Missouri would be admitted as a slave state.
With the admission of Missouri and Maine to the Union, the number of slave states and nonslave states remained equal at 12 each, which prevented the South from having more representation in the Senate (which has two senators from each state), than the North. In addition, slavery would be forbidden north of the latitude line that runs along the southern Missouri border for the remaining Louisiana Territory. Monroe signed Congress's bill reflecting the Compromise on March 6, 1820.
Do you know what the New Englanders thought of this?
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