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Many people in the North wanted Missouri to become a free state. Missouri is located beyond the Mississippi River, meaning that slavery would not expand into the western states. Missouri becoming a free state would also make the number of free states greater than the number of slave states. With more power in Congress from free states, slavery would surely not expand into the West. Because the southern people were against this happening, Missouri did not become a free state.
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