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The Benefits Of The Missouri Compromise
In the year 1820, congress passed a law called the “Missouri Compromise”. This law stated: any state below the border of Missouri that wanted to join the Union would be a slave state, and any state above the Missouri border would be a free state. The law also allowed anyone to cross either side of the border to capture African Americans and sell them back into slavery. When the Missouri Compromise was passed,there were three states above the border that were already slave states, and the law allowed those states to keep slavery. There were several reasons why the Missouri Compromise gave the South an advantage over the North.
The Missouri Compromise allowed the Southern states to leverage slavery for labor and ultimately expand their economy
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