the Manifest Destiny; which was a policy of imperialistic expansion that was proposed during the earlier 19th century. This period of expansion will bring on more tension between the north and the south. There was a series of compromises during this time period that were made in order to meet the needs of both the people of the south and the people of the north. One of these compromises was know as the Missouri Compromise (1820), that made the new state of Missouri a slave state as long as the north would receive a free state as well in order to equal the balance between slaves states and free states. This compromise led to the institution of the state of Maine as a new A
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