Politics and Regional Interests

AP US History· difficulty 3/5

The Missouri Compromise (1820)

  • A

    Was a federal revenue measure that adjusted tariffs on imported manufactured goods

  • B

    Created the Confederate States of America as a separate slaveholding republic

  • C

    Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, prohibiting slavery north of the 36°30' line in the Louisiana Territory

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  • D

    Abolished slavery throughout the Louisiana Territory and the existing slave states

Explanation

Maintained sectional balance temporarily; Jefferson called it "a fire bell in the night."

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