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JalieshaM:

In the 1800s, why did the US government want to keep the number of free states and slave states equal?

victoriabrown1:

The US government wanted to keep the number of free states and slave states equal because they wanted to maintain a balance in Congress between representive who supported slavery and they opposed it.

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