What Was the Missouri Compromise?: And Other Questions about the Struggle Over Slavery by Wendy Hinote Lanier

What Was the Missouri Compromise?: And Other Questions about the Struggle Over Slavery

Six Questions of American History

Wendy Hinote Lanier

48 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction childrens history informative reflective medium-paced
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When the Missouri Territory applied for statehood in 1818, the United States had an equal number of free states and slave states. The territory's leaders wanted Missouri to be a slave state. But that would have destroyed the balance of representat...

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