Henry Clay played a very big role …show more content…
He was voted into the Massachusetts state legislature which then led up to him going to Philadelphia to represent Massachusetts in the Continental Congress. King also became a U.S. Senator in 1817. He has always been an anti-slavery activist. During the Missouri Compromise he made very powerful speeches against slavery. His most memorable speech was in 1819 against Missouri entering as a slave state. King’s reasons for speaking against slavery was to try and get the North against it. The goal was to revive that fortunes of the Federalist