SAT II US History : U.S. Political History from 1790 to 1898
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Example Question #221 : U.S. Political History From 1790 To 1898
The Congress put what compromise over slavery into law with The Missouri Compromise of 1820 regarding a line at the 36°30′ north parallel?
Banned slavery in any new territories and states the United States would acquire or admit above the line.
Placed all questions of slavery in a territory or state to a popular vote if they were located above the line.
Banned slavery above the parallel, while leaving an exception for the territory of Missouri existing above the line.
Banned slavery in Missouri only above the parallel, but allowed it below the line.
Banned slavery underneath the parallel with no exceptions.
Banned slavery above the parallel, while leaving an exception for the territory of Missouri existing above the line.
The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri, settled mostly by Southerners, to enter the Union as a slave state, but made it the most northern state to allow slavery by creating a line at the 36°30′ north parallel. Every territory entering as a state north of that line would enter as a free state, while a territory entering as a new state south of the line could be a slave state.
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