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2. How did the

Northern and Southern
perspective differ
towards the Missouri
Compromise?​

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Southerners who opposed the Missouri Compromise did so because it set a precedent for Congress to make laws concerning slavery, while Northerners disliked the law because it meant slavery was expanded into new territory.

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