Its 1820, and Missouri wants to enter our union as a slave state. But this will break the balance between the number of slave states and free states in our union because now we have 11 free states and 11 slave states.
Slavery should be abolished and it shouldn't expand!
We insist on popular sovereignty because we believe that the slaves should have the right to decide whether a state is a slave state or free state.
Some people want the abolishment of slavery but others want to expand slavery.
Missouri, a slave state
Remaining territory of the Louisiana Purchase, slavery is banned.
Northern Territory of Maine, a free state
Meanwhile, there's a debate going on between Congress. They were deciding whether to let Missouri enter the union as a slave state or free state.
Slavery decreased but didn't stop
People were arguing whether or not congress has the right to spread or limit slavery. Northerners want to abolish slavery but southerners said that the states should have the power to decide.
A Northerner
A Southerner
Congress made a compromise which states that Missouri will enter the state as a slave state but the Northern Territory of Maine would be admitted as a free state. The compromise also banned slavery throughout the remaining Louisiana Purchase territory north of the southern boundary of Missouri.#160;
The compromise limited the spread of slavery but it did nothing to abolish slavery in states that already had slavery.
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