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Which of the following summarizes the provisions of the Missouri Compromise?
A. 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.
B. 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.
C. 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.
D. 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.
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D.
The Missouri Compromise (1820) admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state to preserve the Senate balance, and it limited slavery’s expansion by banning slavery in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36°30' (except Missouri).
The Missouri Compromise (1820) admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state to preserve the Senate balance, and it limited slavery’s expansion by banning slavery in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36°30' (except Missouri).
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