Missouri Compromise 5 paragraph essay
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US History [1]
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The Missouri Compromise The Missouri Compromise, written as a response to Missouri?s request to join the Union in 1819, divided the nation for the first time into groups based solely on the issue of slavery and began a long era of arguing between the North and the South. While it did little to heal the long term disagreements between the North and the South, the Missouri Compromise of 1820 temporarily relaxed tensions between the North and South by balancing the number of slave and free states and subsiding Northerner?s fears of slavery spreading throughout the Louisiana Territory.