Question 9 • ECTC-AL-United States History I: Beginnings to the Industrial Revolution B
The Missouri Compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, preserving the balance of power in Congress, and it set rules for slavery in some territories. Jefferson nevertheless feared that drawing a geographic line over slavery would deepen sectional conflict rather than settle the issue. So his concern was that the compromise did not fully resolve concerns about slavery.
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