Question

Why was it important to Southerners to keep an equal number of senators from free states and slave states in Congress? Mention the defeat of the Tallmadge Amendment in your answer, please.

Answer 1

This was important to them since if there was more senators from the free states than slave states, the senators of the free states could get rid of slavery, and that would be crippling to the South's economy, since the slaves' workforce made up a huge part of the South's economy.