Question

The Northeast was the region most opposed to the statehood of Missouri as a slave state due to:

a) upsetting the balance of power in the Senate.
b)upsetting the Southern economic system with a land-locked state.
c)moral beliefs by the majority of the population against slavery.
d) the business growth of the Northeast was slowing.

Answer 1

i think the answer is a

Answer 2

A, Because the government had an equal amount of free/slave states which by adding Missouri as a slave state added Maine into the US as a free state to bring balance