Missouri Compromise

The Missouri Compromise takes place in what year?

• 1820
• 1825
• 1830
• 1815

Missouri would be the first state completely west of what?

• Great Plains
• Mississippi River
• Ohio River
• Rocky Mountains

What other two states were in the process of being admitted as states when Missouri request

statehood?

• Alabama

• Arkansas

• Michigan

• Illinois

• Indiana

How many free states and slave states were in the Union when Missouri applied for statehood?

• 11 free states and 11 slave states
• 9 free states and 13 slave states
• 12 free states and 10 slave states
• 10 free states and 12 slave states

What kind of state was Missouri applying to be?

• a slave state
• a free state
• a territory

What other state applies for statehood in 1819?

• Kentucky
• Tennessee
• Arkansas
• Maine

Who is the legislator, or person in Congress, that steps in and works out a compromise?

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• Henry Clay

• Frederick Douglass

What would be the boundary line or latitude of slavery in the west?

• 36°30' north latitude
• 35° north latitude
• 30°30' north latitude
• 40° north latitude