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Answer:
Before Missouri's request to join the Union, the Northern and southern interest were unequal.
Explanation:
Before the treaty of Missouri, there was an equal balance of 11 free states and 11 slave states. The South wanted Missouri to enter as a slave state, which created tension among the free states. The Missouri Compromise established to maintain the balance between the South and the northern states were it declared Missouri as free and Maine as a slave state.
