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It would allow slavery to spread north of the line established by the Missouri compromise. - Novanet
New problems about the spread of slavery came up because the Missouri compromise stated that North of the Missouri line would be free and south would be slave up to the Rocky Mountains. This would mean that America would have less slave states which would mean the South would lose power in the Senate which annoyed the South.
New problems about the spread of slavery came up because the Missouri compromise stated that North of the Missouri line would be free and south would be slave up to the Rocky Mountains. This would mean that America would have less slave states which would mean the South would lose power in the Senate which annoyed the South.
New problems about the spread of slavery came up because the Missouri compromise stated that North of the Missouri line would be free and south would be slave up to the Rocky Mountains. This would mean that America would have less slave states which would mean the South would lose power in the Senate which annoyed the South.
It would allow slavery to spread north of the line established by the Missouri compromise. - Novanet
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It would allow slavery to spread north of the line established by the Missouri compromise. - Novanet
It would allow slavery to spread north of the line established by the Missouri compromise. - Novanet
The Missouri Compromise was the first attempt to ease the looming crisis over slavery. It effectively prevented the spread of slavery into new states but did nothing to eliminate slavery in current slave states.
The parallel of Missouri's Southern border was the official reference-point for the new Western territories when they became states of the union. Anywhere north of that line - all the way to the Pacific - slavery was illegal.
Lincoln was only 11 years old when then Missouri Compromise was made. I doubt that he had any strong feelings about it. He did not regularly go the school-- he may not even have heard about it at the time.
He said that he didn't want slavery to spread