How did the question of admission of new states to the union fuel the debate over slavery and states' rights?

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Salil Pandit · Answer 1 · 2017-09-29T23:40:08+0000

It threatened to upset the balance between free states and slave states. Both northerners and southerners hoped that the Missouri Compromise, 1820, had settled the issue of slavery

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