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=The Extension of Slavery: To the West =

===In 1808, when the international slave trade was abolished, many southerners thought slavery would soon end. But during the next generation, they were proven wrong as slavery started expanding into the west. ===

It seemed politically challenging to maintain slavery equally throughout the west.
===In 1818, 10 states were for slavery, and 11 were against slavery. But then, Alabama desided to allow slavery in the state, balancing the Senate. === ===In 1819, Missouri then wanted to enter the Union as a slave state. Many northerners had reacted strongly against Missouri. Their admition would: ===

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In 1820, Henry Clay persuaded Congress to adopt the Missouri Compromise

-Give southern slave owners a right to pursue escaped fugitives into "free" regions and then have them returned to slavery.
===The Missouri Compromise revealed how much sectional rivalries divided the states of the Union. It balanced the northerners interests and the southerners interests. ===

On April 22, 1820, Thomas Jefferson wrote to a friend:
==="This momentous question, like a firebell in the night, awakened me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. ... We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go." ===

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