The House of Representatives rejected Missouri's application for statehood in 1819 because
A) Missouri wanted to be a slave state.
B) Missouri wanted to be a free state.
C) Missouri did not meet all of the requirements for statehood.
D) of a political feud between a congressman and the territory's founding settlers.

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Missouri's application for statehood was rejected by the House of Representatives in 1819 primarily because it wanted to enter the Union as a slave state, which sparked a national controversy over the balance of power between slave and free states.

The House of Representatives Rejected Missouri's Application for Statehood in 1819