They where big trading cities that many people wanted to control and because of it geographic location it was used as a cultural hearth
When 9/11 happened the bombing
<span>The correct answer should be something like the Russian Monarchy or the Russian Government. They mass murders of Jews were called pogroms and were carried out by both the government and angry people who believed that Jews were responsible for the assassination of Alexander II. Alexaneder III created many anti jew laws and if they didn't convert to Eastern Orthodoxy they would have serious issues with the locals.</span>
The Missouri compromise made by Henry clay said that Missouri would enter as a slave state and that Maine would enter as a free state, also everything above the 36/30 line of latitude was free and everything below it, was slave.
