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The Missouri Compromise In 1819, people in Missouri wanted to become a state. The requirements to be a state were a minimum of 60,000 residents at that time, which Missouri had. Until 1818 there were only 10 free states and 10 slave states, so congress didn’t want to break the balance. The Southern states were claiming that Northerners were trying to end slavery. The arguing became so aggressive that they started to talk about a civil war. Henry Clay managed to temporarily resolve the crisis with a series of agreement collectively called the Missouri Compromise. Maine was admitted as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. This preserved the balance in the Senate.

Information Provided By: Danzer, Gerald A. //The Americans //. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Print.

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