Missouri, and Maine both requested to become states, both wanted to be free, but Missouri ended up being slave, causing a battle known as the "burnt district" which was due to Jayhawkers of Kansas flooding into Missouri to vote pro-slave, making the polls artificially swell in support of slavery.
The battle at Lexington and Concord shaped the american revolution through it was the first victory and battle of the revolution so in this it brought more people to the american cause seeing that their militia were able to take on the world power of Britain and succeed in doing so.
The Conservative and the Labour I believe
They funded them with guns and ships and so the balance shifts
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