Missouri+Compromise-2

Background: Let Missouri be a slave state and Maine be a free state. Only state in the Louisiana Purchase that is a Slave state. It was the start of the debate on Slavery. Henry Clay is the man who came up with the Compromise. Did not grow the sectional divide until after the Civil War. August 10th Missouri became a state. Most states at this time were fighting for more land.

Thesis:

The Missouri Compromise drew the country apart because states would argue about slavery rights and the amount of land each state should have.

Sources:

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"Missouri Compromise (United States [1820])." //Encyclopedia Britannica Online//. Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d. Web. 01 Oct. 2012. [].

"23c. The Missouri Compromise." //The Missouri Compromise [ushistory.org]//. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Oct. 2012. [].