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The United States of America started off being a nation known for its ability to compromise and work together to get a solution that pleased everybody. One such example of this was the Missouri Compromise.
In 1820 Missouri requested Congress' permission to be admitted to the United States as a slave state. The North was upset because at this time there was an equal number of slave and free states, there were eleven slave states and eleven free states at this time. In 1820 Henry Clay proposed the Missouri Compromise. In this compromise, Missouri was entered into the United States as a slave state and Maine was entered into the United States as a free state. Although slavery was allowed in Missouri, it would be prohibited in the rest of the territories that were gained through the Louisiana Purchase, north of the 36 30 line. But the ability for the United States to make compromises was short lived when the issue of slavery came up.
By the 1830's slavery was raising its head and the......

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