Sectionalism And The Breakup Of The U.S

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farms at the time,
primarily being the large cotton plantations of the south.
Several people tried to resolve the issue of slavery with compromises
and bills that set clear rules and laws to appeal to both sides. The most
prominent being the Missouri compromise. This document set the standard for
slavery at the time. It also managed to further divide the country into two
opposing groups geographically separated by the 36 degree 30 minute line. The
bill clearly stated that no states above the proposed line shall have slavery,
with exception to those already in existence. This meant that all new states
being brought into the country from the west had a choice to have slavery if and
only if they laid below the line. Obviously, the south did not really like the
idea, as it allowed the northern non-slave states to outnumber the southern
slave-states in the south as far as representation in the government was
concerned.
Another part of the slavery controversy was the moral ...

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