The North and South each had the same number of senators in the U. S. Congress. Now Missouri wanted to enter the Union as a slave state. How would this affect the North?

When Missouri wanted to enter the Union as a slave state, the North became worried because this were to tip the balance. There were an equal number of slave states and free states, but now Missouri wanted to be a slave state.

This lead to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which kept the senators between the North and South equal. This allowed Missouri to become a slave state, and Maine to become a free state.

Although this solved some issues for now, it deepened the tensions between the North and the South.

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.

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