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Why did Southern states fear Missouri’s entry into the Union as a free state?

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They did not want free states to have a majority in the Senate.

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The main reason why many Southern states feared Missouri’s entry into the Union as a free state was they they were afraid such an admission would mean that the institution of slavery would eventually die out in the South--as more people in free states found ways to bolster their economies without the help of slavery. 
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