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Northerners opposed Missouri's entrance as a slave state because slave states would have more senators in Congress than the free states would. It would give the South a bigger voting presence in Congress. This issue was the basic cause of the Civil War.

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Because it would upset the balance between the slave states and the non-slave states in Congress.

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