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As most people do not just happen to have a copy of the American Journey History Textbook sitting on their bookshelf, I found this answer to be rather useless. The three provisions of the Missouri Compromise are: 1.) Missouri came in as a slave state. 2.) Maine came in as a free state. 3.) Slavery was banned in territories north of the Mason Dixon line.
How the Missouri Compromise of 1820 reached its compromise is that they realized that Main was neither of the two .It wasn't a slave state nor was it a free state so they decided that Maine should be a free state because of its environment with all the factories and that Missouri should be a slave state because of its large plantations.
Senator Stephen A. Douglas put forth the argument that if the Missouri Compromise of 1850 really was a compromise, it had to put forward a consistent principle. If it did not then it was not a compromise, but instead a modus vivendi arrangement. The main problem of this characterization is that Douglas was asking a rhetorical question. Douglas was the one to know inasmuch as he helped put it together.
1.Maine would separate from and be admitted as a free state; 2.Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state; and 3.The remaining territory of the Louisianna Purchase, which lay north of the 36-30 parallel, would be closed off to slavery.
The main purposes of both Missouri Compromises, 1820 & 1850 was to keep in balance free States & slave States. This would be handled before they became States. Or if necessary after Statehood.