Asked by Zephyr Benedict
How can you best explain why Southern states did not support Maine’s application for statehood?
A. Southern states did not want Northern states to have more representatives in Congress.
B. Southern states would have to end slavery if Maine was accepted.
C. Southern states did not feel that Maine was supportive of free trade in the United States.
D. Southern states did not support the Missouri Compromise.
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Southern leaders opposed Maine’s admission because it would add another free state (and therefore more congressional power for the North, especially in the Senate). They only agreed to Maine’s statehood as part of the Missouri Compromise, which preserved the slave/free balance by admitting Missouri as a slave state.
Southern leaders opposed Maine’s admission because it would add another free state (and therefore more congressional power for the North, especially in the Senate). They only agreed to Maine’s statehood as part of the Missouri Compromise, which preserved the slave/free balance by admitting Missouri as a slave state.
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