George Washington's presidency was the foundation of further presidencies. He agreed to become the first president to push the Constitution into action and keep the country from falling again under the rule of a king.
Slavery became even more divisive when it threatened to expandwestward because non-slave holding white settlers did not want to compete with slaveholders in the new territories. Politicians were forced to deal with the issue of slavery and its westward expansion as early as the MissouriCompromise of 1820.
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Explanation:
negotiation over the balance of powers
