History of the United States

Senators from the Northern states also objected to the spread of slavery and the admission of any other slave states into the Union. At the time Missouri asked for admission into the Union, the Senate was equally divided with eleven free states and eleven slave states. The new state of Missouri would add two members to the Senate, thereby giving the slave states a majority in the Senate. The Northern senators also feared that, if Missouri were accepted as a slave state, all of the Louisiana territory might be open for slavery. The Southern states were concerned about prohibition of slavery in the Louisiana territory.

Missouri.

Congress agreed to allow Missouri to join the Union as a slave-state, on condition that no new slave-states were admitted anywhere North of the parallel that marked Missouri's Southern border.

Gold was discovered there.

An effect of the successful rebellion in Haiti was that Napoleon decided to sell the Louisiana Territory.

Black Males

Saving money and limiting the size of government

gave president power

Helped the north at the expense of the south

States' rights

Answer this question…The Townshend Acts were passedThe proclamation line was set.The Boston Massacre occurred.