The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free
One impact that the French fur trade had on Native Americans was for settlers to take over the lands of the natives to be able to hunt the beavers and other animals used for furs.
