Answer - after the Missouri Compromise there were:
<h2>12 free states</h2><h2>12 slave states</h2>
The Missouri Compromise (1820) admitted Missouri into the Union as a slave state with Maine being added as a free state at the same time, to keep the balance of slave and free states equal. It also prohibited any future slave states north of the latitude line 36 1/2 degrees north of the equator in territories of the Louisiana Purchase, with the exception of Missouri (north of that line) being admitted as a slave state.
The Social Contract allows for citizens to pick and overthrow the ruler. The government should be based to the citizens according to the Social Contract.
Answer:The northern economy relied on manufacturing and the agricultural southern economy depended on the production of cotton. The desire of southerners for unpaid workers to pick the valuable cotton strengthened their need for slavery.
