Essentials of United States history . the dividingline between the Spanish i)rovinces and the United States. 261. Slave States and Free States. — As early as 1787, inthe Federal Convention, the slavery question was a bone ofcontention among the states. After the invention of thecotton gin, slave labor, which was already an importantfactor in the South, became more profitable. By the year1800, all the Southern states were slave states, while allthe Northern states were practically free. There were atthat time, therefore, eight free states and eight slave states.Consequently the United States ha
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Essentials of United States history . the dividingline between the Spanish i)rovinces and the United States. 261. Slave States and Free States. — As early as 1787, inthe Federal Convention, the slavery question was a bone ofcontention among the states. After the invention of thecotton gin, slave labor, which was already an importantfactor in the South, became more profitable. By the year1800, all the Southern states were slave states, while allthe Northern states were practically free. There were atthat time, therefore, eight free states and eight slave states.Consequently the United States had sixteen slave-state sena-tors and an equal number of free-state senators. HenceforthBalance of for half a century the balance of power in thePower. Senate was carefully preserved in the admissionof new states. New states were admitted as iollows: In 1803, Ohio, free state; in 1812, Louisiana, slave state. In 1816, Indiana, free state; in 1817, Mississippi, slavestate. In 1818, Illinois, free state; in 1819, Alabama, slave state.. MONROES ADMINISTRATION (1817-1825) 219 In the year 1820, Missouri applied to be admitted as a slavestate. 262. The Missouri Compromise. — A large part of Missourilay just across the river from Ilhnois. The people of thatstate and other Northern states did not want Missouri to beadmitted into the Union as a slave state. Maine was ask-ing for admission, and became a free state in 1820. TheSouth insisted that Missouri should come in as a slave stateto keep the balance of power in the Senate, After a long and angry debate, a bill known as the MissouriCompromise Bill was adopted in 1820. This bill providedthat Missouri should be admitted as a slave state, but thatthere should be no slavery in any other portion of , theLouisiana Purchase north of the parallel 36° 30, the south-ern boundary of Missouri. The result of this compromise wasto postpone the settlement of the slavery question, and forthirty years longer new free and slave states were admitteda