There isn't any one main reason that the balance between the slave states and free states lasted as long as it did. The main reason of many is that they were both sides were profitting from it in different ways, and there were many different compromises that started around the same time as our Constitution was written that the South would be able to rule over the slave trade.
1820
1820
A series of compromises, starting with the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
The preserved peace between the free states and slave states was achieved through the Compromise of 1850. This compromise allowed for California's admission as a free state and created a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico, allowing the residents to decide the issue of slavery through popular sovereignty. It also included stronger fugitive slave laws to appease the slave states.
The political balance between slave and free states as of 1819 was disturbed by the territory of Missouri's petition for admission to the Union as a slave state.
the Missouri Compromise
a balance between free and slave states.
Missouri Compromise
The goal was to keep a political balance between slave states and free states.
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The goal was to keep a political balance between slave states and free states.
Missouri Compromise