The _________ would have explicitly protected slavery and extend the line of the Missouri Compromise to the Pacific.

Emancipation Proclamation

Compromise of 1850

Crittenden Compromise

Corwin Amendment

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The correct answer is Crittenden Compromise. The Crittenden Compromise proposed constitutional amendments that would have explicitly protected slavery and extended the line of the Missouri Compromise to the Pacific in an effort to prevent the Civil War.