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Paperback What Was the Missouri Compromise?: And Other Questions about the Struggle Over Slavery Book

ISBN: 0761385657

ISBN13: 9780761385653

What Was the Missouri Compromise?: And Other Questions about the Struggle Over Slavery

(Part of the Six Questions of American History Series)

When the Missouri Territory applied for statehood in 1818, the United States had an equal number of free states and slave states. The territory's leaders wanted Missouri to be a slave state. But that would have destroyed the balance of representation in Congress. A heated debate broke out. The southern representatives and Missouri's leaders thought states should be able to decide the slavery question for themselves. Northern members of Congress...

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