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Used as a balance mechanism: one pro-slavery state would be matched by one anti-slavery state.
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Missouri Compromise
Used as a balance mechanism: one pro-slavery state would be matched by one anti-slavery state.
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He models the western expansion crisis as a balance-of-power problem in which each new state threatened the distribution of congressional power between pro-slavery and anti-slavery blocs.
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"...one by one, okay? And the solution, what they call the Missouri Compromise, is that for every one state that came in as pro..."
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"But the problem, of course, is that a lot of these Western states had their own opinions. So the Western, so some of these..."
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