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Why did Missouri want to enter as a slave state?

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For-profit

Step-by-step explanation:

Considering its climate, Missouri would be optimal for growing crops like tobacco and cotton and as maybe sugarcane. Those crops take a lot of hard manual labor so it was cheaper to get slaves to work the fields.

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