Missouri compromise
slavery was prohibited in the northern part of the louisiana purchase
The Kansas Nebraska Act reopened argument over the spread of slavery into territories of the Louisiana Purchase.
The major source of conflict over granting statehood was the slavery question-- would slavery be allowed in the new state?
closed to slavery
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Yes. The northwest ordinance set the boundary of slavery at ohio.
The spread of slavery
all the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the southern border of Missouri.
Missouri Compromise
The Louisiana Purchase was form Michigan to Louisiana or Mississippi River over to about the middle of Texas (Roughly) and up around Oregon then across Montana. I know this description sounds a little rough but if you get a map it will look a lot better.
The Louisiana Purchase and Mexican American War certainly escalated tensions over slavery. For one, slave holders felt it was okay to expand slavery and their products and services into newly acquired land and territories. This was strongly opposed by early abolitionists that did not want the immoral act of slavery plaguing the new territories.
The addition of new territories through the Louisiana purchase alarmed many southerners, including North Carolinians. As territories acquired by the Louisiana purchase applied for admission to the union, they might apply as free states, states that had banned slavery. Doing so would throw the balance in congress to free states, who might then move to ban slavery throughout the nation.