Slavery in The United States was established with a number of penal codes and stautes legislated in different states in order to conduct the involving slaves and free blacks and also to regulate the activity of slaves in the beginning of the 19th century. The question of slavery became both political and geographical with The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and led to a period of national debate between the anti and the pro-slavery states in order to gain economic and political advantage. However, in 1820, the congress was embroiled in the dispute over the way to devide the acquired territories into slave and free states. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was a kind of an agreement between the two sides (the pro and the anti-slavery sections) with
