Why was it so important to southerners to keep an equal number of senators from free states and slave states in congress ? Mention the defeats of the Tallmadge amendment in your answer

It was very important for Southerners to keep an equal number of senators from free states and slave states in order to ensure that their views in support of slavery were defended in Congress. Southerners feared that if Congress became predominantly "free," they would not be able to defend and protect the practice of slavery.

An example of the difficulty of this balance was the Tallmadge Amendment. This proposed the admission of the Territory of Missouri to the Union as a free state. However, this was not passed in the end, and instead, the Missouri Compromise was passed. The Compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state, while also admitting Maine as a free one in order to maintain this delicate balance between free and slave states.

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.

a) the colonists began to see themselves as different from people in britain.