A: Focusing on one source of information
Were built around a common is the correct answer I believe.
The first new England colonies were settled by the puritans because they didn't agree with the church in the way of worship
In the 1760's Great Britain started imposing taxes on the colonies to pay off the French and Indian War. Colonists who didn't want to pay the taxes would smuggle goods in.
The primary concern was related to the number of congressmen from free and slave states. If Missouri was admitted into the Union as a slave state, the congress would have more Southerners than Northerners in the congress which would be bad for slaves everywhere. Northerners therefore asked that if Missouri enters as a slave state, Maine has to be separated and enter as a free state.<span />
