What did the Missouri Compromise authorize the people of the Missouri territory to do? Transcript of the Missouri CompromiseAn Act to authorize the people of the Missouri territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the inhabitants of that portion of the Missouri territory included within the boundaries herein after designated, be, and they are hereby, authorized to form for themselves a constitution and state government, and to assume such name as they shall deem proper; and the said state, when formed, shall be admitted into the Union, upon an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatsoever. . . . Section 8. And be it further enacted. That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state, contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude . . . shall be, and is hereby, forever prohibited: Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labour or service is lawfully claimed, in any state or territory of the United States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labour or service as aforesaid. APPROVED, March 6, 1820.A:A. vote on becoming a stateB:B. form a state governmentC:C. vote on allowing slaveryD:D. decide the size of their state

6. Which of the following was a provision of the Missouri Compromise? A:A. Missouri could join the Union as a state with slavery. B:B. Missouri could join the Union as a free state. C:C. Maine could join the Union as a state with slavery. D:D. Maine and Missouri could join the Union as states with slavery.Turn In7. Why did abolitionists protest the "gag rule" of 1836? Transcript of the Missouri CompromiseAn Act to authorize the people of the Missouri territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the inhabitants of that portion of the Missouri territory included within the boundaries herein after designated, be, and they are hereby, authorized to form for themselves a constitution and state government, and to assume such name as they shall deem proper; and the said state, when formed, shall be admitted into the Union, upon an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatsoever. . . . Section 8. And be it further enacted. That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state, contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude . . . shall be, and is hereby, forever prohibited: Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labour or service is lawfully claimed, in any state or territory of the United States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labour or service as aforesaid. APPROVED, March 6, 1820. A:A. It prevented abolitionists from speaking against slavery. B:B. It silenced congressional debate about slavery. C:C. It attempted to ban abolitionist ideas in Missouri. D:D. It banned attacks against slavery in newspapers.Turn In

Congress passed the Missouri Compromise in 1820. What happened in 1849 that threatened to upset the balance between states with slavery and free states? A:A. California applied for admission to the Union as a free state.B:B. The people of Missouri voted to secede from the United States.C:C. Congress approved the Wilmot Proviso banning slavery in the Mexican Cession.D:D. Southerners succeeded in opening all of the Mexican Cession to slavery.

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How was the Compromise of 1850 different from the Missouri Compromise? A. It mostly ignored slavery to focus on other issues. B. It admitted a new state that banned slavery into the union. C. It greatly benefited the North at the expense of the South. D. It allowed new states to vote on whether to allow slavery.

After the Mexican War, the United States gained a large portion of new land. In an attempt to decide whether these new territories would be slave states or free states, Congress passed A. the Northwest Ordinance. B. the Compromise of 1850. C. the Kansas-Nebraska Act. D. the Missouri Compromise.