What specific issues caused the Missouri Compromise
to explode in a confrontation between agricultural and industrialist interests?
The Missouri Compromise started a debate about how the redistribution of land would affect the farm-and-industry economy by taking large plantations from free men and their families. Slavery constituted a problem for the growing economy beginning to take shape above the Mason-Dixon line. Both parts, the northerners and the southerners believed it was going to be a problem for the plantation economy