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This 3 page paper explains the sectional concerns with slavery that led to the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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sectional: it was a question of balancing slave and free states. This paper considers the issues that led to the Compromise. Discussion When the framers of the Constitution drafted the
document with slavery still permitted in the new nation, they all but guaranteed that the issue would arise again. And it did, in the form of the bloodiest war Americans
have ever fought. Sometimes it seems that people "feel" that war is coming long before the actual conflict begins, but hope theyre wrong or it can be avoided. Europeans much
have watched in horror as Hitler rose to power but at the same time, hoped that he would cease his aggression. Likewise, Americans must have felt uneasy and troubled about
slavery, but hoped that somehow they could find a way to avoid a war over the issue. That hope began to die in 1819,when the "Missouri Crisis" forced it in
to the limelight; in that year, Missouri "applied for admission to the Union as a slave state" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 256). Most of the settlers in the then-territory
were slave owners from either Kentucky or Tennessee, so bringing in Missouri as a slave state seemed natural and right to them (Faragher et al, 2000). However, Missouri bordered Illinois,
which prohibited slavery, and the juxtaposition of the two made northerners uneasy that the South wanted to extend slavery northward (Faragher et al, 2000). The North objected to slavery on
moral grounds (Faragher et al, 2000). But there was more than the immorality of slavery at issue, there was the question of membership in the Senate. At the time of
the Missouri Crisis, there were eleven slave states and eleven free states in the Senate, so the votes were evenly balanced; if Missouri came in as a slave state, that
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