History of the United States I / Unit 8 USH1 1097 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Northern Fears of New Slave States
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The idea
Northerners feared the Louisiana Purchase would create additional slave states, reducing northern representation in Congress and shifting power south.
In practice
A question about territory read immediately, and correctly, as a question about sectional power.
Where people slip
This anxiety produces the Missouri Crisis in Unit 11, and every territorial fight that follows it.
Your place on the trail
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