Cause Effect
Louisiana Purchase - the US was expanding in size. Missouri was in the
Louisiana territory and wanted to be a slave state
Cotton trade - the south wanted to expand cotton by making another slave state
Manifest Destiny - the US was expanding west by gaining more land; What would that mean for the expansion of slavery?
Representation Balance in Congress - by 1820 there were 11 free states in the North and 11 slave states in the South
Maine & Missouri Statehood - both wanted to be added as states to the US
