Question

Describe the issue that this portion of the Missouri Compromise is seeking to resolve.

Answer 1

The Missouri Compromise was primarily aimed at resolving the issue of admitting a slave or free state and which to divide them among after a piece of land was acquired . So the issue was controversy upon admitting slave states or free states into new territories . <span />

Answer 2

I wrote a first person essay on this with details.

He was telling the kids about when he was a senator and how the government didn't want to cause trouble creating the Missouri compromise.  It didn't really help the nation though just kind of put the problem off to the side. Missouri’s 1819 request for admission to the Union as a slave state but that would upset the balance between the slave and non-slave states. Congress created a two-part compromise, granting Missouri’s request but also admitting Maine as a free state. And that Uncle Tom book, that was talking about how slaves were treated in the south and it just makes me upset to see this happen to anybody. And I bet you that some southerners were so mad that someone opened up slavery to be investigated. But I guess that’s acceptable since the opening of the Fugitive slave act bringing people back where they were running from.