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Because Senate was already 50% free states, 50% slave states, (11free/11slave) and adding Missouri as either a slave or free state would offset that balance and give more power to one side than to the other until Maine decided to want to be added as a free state, then Missouri came in as a slave state and therefore they wanted to keep the number even so the higher one wouldn't take over the other.

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What issue was brought up by Missouri's request to join the Union?

There was and even amount of slave and slave-free states


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The Missouri Compromise temporarily settled the debate over slavery by allowing Missouri enter the Union as a slave state. Maine was allowed to enter the Union as a free state.


How did the Missouri Compromise temporarily settle the debate over slavery?

The Missouri Compromise temporarily settled the debate over slavery by allowing Missouri enter the Union as a slave state. Maine was allowed to enter the Union as a free state.


How did The Missouri Compromise temporarily settled the debate over slavery?

The Missouri Compromise temporarily settled the debate over slavery by allowing Missouri enter the Union as a slave state. Maine was allowed to enter the Union as a free state.


What did the The Missouri Compromise propose?

Missouri would be admitted to the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.


What issue did The Missouri Compromise?

The decision of whether to admit the new South Western territories to the Union as slave-states or free soil. The Compromise allowed no new slave-states North of the parallel that marked Missouri's Southern border.


The Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed Maine to be admitted to the Union as a slave state?

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed Maine to be admitted to the Union as a slave state. This was to counter balance having Missouri enter the Union as a slave state. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed Maine to enter the US as a free state and allow Missouri to enter as a slave state.


Missouri was admitted to the union as a?

Missouri was admitted as a slave state. This was part of the Missouri compromise in which Missouri would enter as a slave state and Maine as a free state.


What is the importance of the Missouri compromise?

Missouri just joined the union as a slave state


Which state was added to the union as a slave state because of The Missouri Compromise?

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Missouri's application for statehood in 1819 raised the issue of whether slavery?

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