Missouri Compromise of 1820

Name

What are privileges?

• agreements a landlord and tenant sign when renting a home
• an act or series of acts that are always done the same way
• special advantages given to a group of people

Maria worked hard to save enough money until she finally _________________ her own car.

• acquired
• risked
• neglected

The team worked hard to find a _________________ to the problem that was causing their experiment to fail.

• link
• solution
• disorder

What is a compromise?

• when people agree to accept something that is not completely what they wanted in order to satisfy others
• a substance prescribed by doctors to treat an illness or injury
• a diagram that shows a relationship between numbers

In the passage, Missourians petitioned Congress to become a state. What does the word "petitioned" mean?

• successful completion of the highest grade in a school
• having the right abilities and talents to do a task
• having formally asking those in power for a request

Why did John Scott petition Congress to allow Missouri to become a state?

• Missourians wanted to be full-fledged citizens of the United States
• to be protected from Native American attacks by the U.S. Army
• to make more money by selling crops to other states

What was the problem with Missouri joining the Union as a state?

• it would create an uneven number of slave states, which would give those representatives more votes in Congress
• there were not enough people living in the territory
• there was no one to represent Missourians in Congress

What type of state did Missouri want to be if it joined the Union?

• an independent state – neither slave nor free
• as a free state where slavery was illegal
• the leaders of Missouri wanted to join as a slave state

What was the solution proposed by Henry Clay?

• Missourians would have to pay an extra tax to join the Union
• Missouri would join as a slave state and Maine would join as a free state to keep the balance of power even
• all Missourians who owned slaves would have to move to another state where slavery was allowed