Missouri was well known for its slavery in the 1800s. If the Missouri Compromise didn’t happen, it was of changed the United States today greatly. The Missouri Compromise accomplished making Missouri a slave state and changing Maine into a free state because it wanted to be separated from Massachusetts. There were 22 states at the time equally divided into 11 slave states and 11 free slave states. There was chaos when the Missouri compromise was made, so they made Maine a free of slave state to even out the states. This eventually led up to the Civil War. Northern states did not like the Missouri compromise because they felt like the Southern states already had too much power. The northern states made The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 \ to ban
