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A series of compromises, starting with the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

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The North-South Compromise

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Did the Missouri compromise preserved the balance between slave states and free states?

1820


What year did the Missouri compromise preserved the balance between free and slave states?

1820


Why did states choose bicameral legislatures?

nova net: to balance power between the house and the senate


How did the compromise solve the problem of keeping balance of power in the senate between free and slave states?

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The application for California statehood caused turmoil in Congress because?

It would upset the balance between the slave and free states in the Senate. By Paul A Rivera


What issue did the Missouri Compromise temporarily resolve?

The western expansion of slavery and the balance between slave and free states in the Senate


What preserved the balance between the slave states and free states?

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.


Why was the balance of free and state slaves in the senate such an important issue?

The balance of free and slave states in the senate was such an important issue because if the either had an advantage it would only help to trigger a war that was yet to come.


Why was bicameralism chosen as the principle for the US congress?

It was a part of the Great Compromise of 1787 also known as the Connecticut Compromise, when the small states wanted an equal number of representatives from each state and the large states which wanted the number of representatives to be based on population. Therefore the House of Representatives and the Senate were born, with the House of Representatives satisfying the large states and the Senate satisfying the smaller states.


How does the Wilmot Proviso show the importance of a balance of power in the legislature for the South?

the sout's balance of power was the senate. Addition of non slaqve states would upset that balance of power


Why was the US relucten to annex Texas?

Because it was an area in which slavery was legal, and to bring it into the Union would destroy the balance in the Senate between slave states and non-slave states. Also because the U.S. didnt want :D


The preserved peace between the free states and slave states when the admission of California and New Mexico threatened the balance achieved by the Missouri Compromise?

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.