Why was it important to maintain a balance of free states an slave states

It kept each side from having too much power in Congress. It allowed slavery to spread into new territories. It protected the rights of enslaved Africans

Explanation:

It kept each side from having too much power in Congress.

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the government wanted to keep the balance because they knew if one side got to much power then some sort of fight would break out. But the system failed and it led to the civil war which lasted 4 years.

worcester v. georgia, legal case in which the u.s. supreme court on march 3, 1832, held (5–1) that the states did not have the right to impose regulations on native american land. andrew jackson refused to enforce the ruling, the decision form the basis for most subsequent indian law in the united states.