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

by Wendy Lanier

Book Overview

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 representation in Congress. A heated debate broke out. The southern representatives and Missouri's leaders thought states should be able to decide the slavery question for themselves. Northern members of Congress...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761385657
• ISBN13: 9780761385653
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Lerner Classroom
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.5" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7