JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
THE TRAIL OF TEARS
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Question
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Bring in states in pairs
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Draw a line where slavery would be allowed
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Allows slavery in the state of Missouri
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Bring in Indiana as a free state
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Detailed explanation-1: -Transcript. An Act to authorize the people of the Missouri territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories.
Detailed explanation-2: -Enacted in 1820 to maintain the balance of power in Congress, the Missouri Compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
Detailed explanation-3: -Though the Missouri Compromise managed to keep the peace-for the moment-it failed to resolve the pressing question of slavery and its place in the nation’s future.
Detailed explanation-4: -At the time, there were 11 free states and 10 slave states. Southern congressmen feared that the entrance of Missouri as a free state would upset the balance of power between North and South, as the North far outdistanced the South in population, and thus, U.S. representatives.