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Supreme Court's ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford only fueled the arrival of the American Civil War by stiring up uneasy relations between Northerners and Southerners.
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In 1804 the United States takes formal possession of what is now Missouri. In 1820 After fierce debate, Congress admits Missouri as a slave state. The question of Missouri statehood sparks widespread disagreement over the expansion of slavery. The resolution, eventually known as the Missouri Compromise which allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state along with the entrance of the free state of Maine, preserving a balance in the number of free and slave states. The Compromise also dictates that no territories above the 36o 30' latitude can enter the union as slave states. The neighboring state to Missouri, Illinois had entered the union as a free state in 1819, while in subsequent years Congress admits Arkansas as a slave state and Iowa as a free state. In Slave states and free states, which had previously respected one another's laws on slavery, become increasingly hesitant to enforce...
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