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Which of the following summarizes the provisions of the Missouri Compromise?(1 point)
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It allowed Missouri to be a slave state and Maine to be a free state. It also required future states to join the United States in pairs, with one slave state and one free state.
It allowed Missouri to be a slave state and Maine to be a free state. It also required future states to join the United States in pairs, with one slave state and one free state.

It allowed Missouri to be a slave state and Maine to be a free state. It also limited the expansion of slavery in the West.
It allowed Missouri to be a slave state and Maine to be a free state. It also limited the expansion of slavery in the West.

It allowed Missouri to be a slave state and Maine to be a free state. It also allowed future states south of Missouri’s southern border to choose whether to be free states or slave state.
It allowed Missouri to be a slave state and Maine to be a free state. It also allowed future states south of Missouri’s southern border to choose whether to be free states or slave state.

It allowed Missouri to be a slave state and Maine to be a free state. It also banned any further expansion of slavery in the West.

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The correct summary of the provisions of the Missouri Compromise is:

"It allowed Missouri to be a slave state and Maine to be a free state. It also limited the expansion of slavery in the West."

This compromise, enacted in 1820, admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state while also establishing a boundary (the 36°30' parallel) north of which slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Territory.

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