Which of the Following Was a Provision of the Missouri

question 25

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was a provision of the Missouri Compromise?

• A) After Missouri's admission to the Union as a slave state, slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase territory north of 36°30¢.
• B) New nonslaveholding settlers in Missouri would receive a homestead of forty acres of land.
• C) The Louisiana Purchase territory was to be open to white settlers only.
• D) Free blacks were barred from settling in Missouri.

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