The question of admitting Missouri to the United States divided the nation, because people argued if Missouri should be a slave state or a free state. Debate raged in Congress over a proposal to ban slavery in Missouri. Angry Southerners claimed that the Constitution did not give Congress the power to ban slavery. They worried that free states could form a majority in Congress and ban slavery altogether.
Missouri compromise
Missouri became the 24th state admitted to the Union on August 10, 1821.
Maine became the 23rd state on March 15, 1820. Its admission to the Union balanced the simultaneous admission of Missouri as a slave state.
The Tallmadge Amendment requested that the territory known as Missouri become a part of the Union. It also demanded that there be no slavery in Missouri if it was admitted to the Union.
Missouri itself. IMPROVEMENT The State of Maine, to balance the number of Free States and Slave States after the admission of Missouri as Slave State in the Union.
admitting Maine to balance the slave issue ( answer for A + )
The admission of California into the Union. It extended too far either side of the Missouri line to satisfy either side.
Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
The first state west of the Mississippi River to be admitted to the Union was Missouri. It became the 24th state on August 10, 1821, following the Missouri Compromise, which allowed for its admission as a slave state while maintaining a balance with free states. Missouri's admission marked a significant moment in the expansion of the United States westward.
Missouri's request for admission into the Union in 1819 intensified sectional rivalry because it raised the contentious issue of slavery's expansion into new territories. The debate over whether Missouri would enter as a free or slave state threatened to disrupt the delicate balance of power between free and slave states in Congress. The ensuing conflict led to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which temporarily eased tensions but highlighted the deep divisions between the North and South over slavery and its future in America.
The North was generally opposed to Missouri's request to join the Union as a slave state because it would disrupt the delicate balance between free and slave states. The admission of Missouri could lead to the expansion of slavery into new territories, which many in the North opposed. This tension culminated in the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state but simultaneously admitted Maine as a free state to maintain the balance. Overall, the North viewed Missouri's request through the lens of the growing sectional conflict over slavery.
It remained loyal to the Union, and that is why Lincoln allowed slavery to continue there. But it was a badly divided state, with guerrilla warfare continuing throughout the conflict.