It was delayed because the issue of Slavery and to balance whether it should be a free or slave state.
California became a free state in 1850, ending the balance of free states and slave states. However, the slave states got a tougher fugitive slave law as a result of California's admission to the Union as a free state.
The goal was to keep a political balance between slave states and free states.
It got California admitted as free soil, on condition that two other states could be admitted as slave-states.
1820
So the balance of slave to free states were equal in congress
The political balance between slave and free states as of 1819 was disturbed by the territory of Missouri's petition for admission to the Union as a slave state.
It was delayed because the issue of Slavery and to balance whether it should be a free or slave state.
California became a free state in 1850, ending the balance of free states and slave states. However, the slave states got a tougher fugitive slave law as a result of California's admission to the Union as a free state.
1820
monopolies and robber barrons
Texas would be admitted as a slave state, and it would upset the balance of the equal number of states being slave states and non-slave states. -1d4evr
It upset the balance of slave and free states
the Missouri Compromise
It upset the balance of slave & free states,
states passed slave codes.
a balance between free and slave states.