Missouri Compromise
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- Missouri was a newly acquired territory and whichever way it went in would flip the Senate so both the Northerners and the Southerners strongly advocated for the state to be a free state or a slave state.
- Should territories acquired in the Louisiana Purchase be slave states or free states?
- Northerner
- Slavery is inhumane and should be illegal. Missouri should enter the union as a free state!
- There were many debates among Northerners and Southerners.
- We want the states to be able to decide what they do and Missouri should enter as a slave state! If you don't give us what we want we will secede from the United States of America!
- Southerner
- Nat Turner and an army of escaped slaves went on a killing spree of 58 white slave owners which lit a fuse under the issue of slavery.
- Missouri will enter the Union as a slave state and Maine will enter the Union as a free state to keep the sides even. Any territory south of Missouri can own slaves and any territory north of Missouri will not be able to own slaves.
- Missouri Compromise
- The Missouri Compromise served as a temporary band-aid to the issue of slavery however it was not fully dealt with until the Civil War which both sides wanted to avoid however it was impossible because both sides were so passionate about their beliefs.
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