Missouri applied to be admitted as a slave state, and if admitted, would:
A: Tip the balance of the federal Senate to the slave states, 24-22
B: Create a large lump of slave-permitting territory jutting out into the plains.
Northerners didn't want the Senate to get off balance, and also didn't want the South to use Missouri as a springboard to creating more slave states in the plains.
it was complicated by the issue of slavery.
Yes. That Compromise worked well for thirty years, until the new territories acquired from Mexico required a new Compromise.
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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.
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it was complicated by the issue of slavery.
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Yes. That Compromise worked well for thirty years, until the new territories acquired from Mexico required a new Compromise.
There was a problem when Missouri wanted to become a state because the south wanted Missouri to enter as a slave state but the north wanted Missouri to enter as a free state. Which led to the Missouri Compromise.
Henry Clay believed that a strong national economy would promote national feeling and reduce regional conflicts.
missouri's date of statehood is August 10, 1821.
applied for statehood as a free state.
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