Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820

question 137

Multiple Choice

Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820,

• A) the remaining Louisiana Purchase territory was divided into slave and free zones.
• B) Congress banned slavery in any new territory that might ever be added to the United States.
• C) Missouri agreed to gradual emancipation of slavery in exchange for admission to the Union.
• D) Ohio became a free state to balance the admission of Missouri as a slave state.
• E) slave states gained a two-seat advantage in the U.S. Senate.

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