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The 1820 Missouri Compromise Michael Argenti Whilst the institution of slavery had been a divisive issue in the political arena of the United States (consider the Northwest Ordinance of 1787) it was not until the territory of Missouri petitioned Congress for admission to the Union that this issue was brought to confrontation. Slavery had existed in all the English mainland colonies and had come to dominate the South. In fact, most of the Founding Fathers themselves were large-scale slaveholders, as were eight of the first twelve presidents of the United States. Since the Revolutionary War the Union had grown from only thirteen states to twenty-two states and yet, constantly managed to maintain a sense of balance between free and slave states. With eleven 'free' states and eleven 'slave' states there was voting stability in the Senate allowing the prevention of legislation from being passed by either side if it was not to...

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