The north east was the region most opposed statehood of missouri as a slave state due to

The controversy over whether Missouri should be admitted as a slave state, resulted in the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which specified that the purchase of the Louisiana Territory north of the 36 ° 30 'parallel, describing most of the border South of Missouri, would be organized as free states and territories south of that line would be reserved for the organization as slave states. As part of the compromise, the admission of Maine (1820) as a free state was an insurance to balance the admission of Missouri as a slave state (1820).

was a long, primarily nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all americans. the era has had a lasting impact on united states society, in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights, and in its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism. in the south violence and fraud in southern elections from 1868 to 1876, which had reduced black voter turnout and enabled southern white democrats to regain power in state legislatures across the south