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The Missouri Compromise: Questions and Answers, Exams of History

Lincoln University of MissouriHistory

A series of questions and answers related to the missouri compromise of 1820. It explores key aspects of the compromise, including its impact on the balance of power between free and slave states, the expansion of slavery, and the role of compromise in a democratic society. The document also includes information about the northwest ordinance of 1787 and its relevance to the missouri compromise.

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Which region, north or south, had the most land area? ✔✔South
Which region was most densely populated? ✔✔North
Which region had the higher population of black people? ✔✔South
In what two southern states did the black population outnumber the white population? What
assumptions could you make about these states? ✔✔South Carolina and Louisiana- white
people had black slaves
In which regions can you find states where the female population outnumbered the male
population? Name the states. ✔✔North- New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
Connecticut
True or False?? The land areas of Missouri and Michigan were more than the land areas in
Arkansas and Florida ✔✔True
What changes did the Missouri Compromise bring to the United States map? ✔✔It made an
equal ration of slave states to free states
How did the Missouri Compromise solve the problem of keeping the balance of power in the
Senate between free and slave states? ✔✔Two new states were added by the year 1821.
Maine was added as a free state and Missouri was added as a slave state
What territory was added to the slave side? ✔✔Arkansas Territory was added to the slave side
through the Missouri Compromise
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Which region, north or south, had the most land area? ✔✔South Which region was most densely populated? ✔✔North Which region had the higher population of black people? ✔✔South In what two southern states did the black population outnumber the white population? What assumptions could you make about these states? ✔✔South Carolina and Louisiana- white people had black slaves In which regions can you find states where the female population outnumbered the male population? Name the states. ✔✔North- New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut True or False?? The land areas of Missouri and Michigan were more than the land areas in Arkansas and Florida ✔✔True What changes did the Missouri Compromise bring to the United States map? ✔✔It made an equal ration of slave states to free states How did the Missouri Compromise solve the problem of keeping the balance of power in the Senate between free and slave states? ✔✔Two new states were added by the year 1821. Maine was added as a free state and Missouri was added as a slave state What territory was added to the slave side? ✔✔Arkansas Territory was added to the slave side through the Missouri Compromise

What territory was to be kept free of slavery? ✔✔The remaining portion of the Louisiana Purchase was kept free of slavery by the Missouri Compromise What did the South stand to gain as a result of the Compromise? What did the South stand to lose? ✔✔The South would gain land and equal representation. The South would lose people (population), and labor for the economy Why would the South begin to look to the land to the west of the borders of the U.S., in what was then part of Mexico? ✔✔There was a limited amount of territory to extend slavery into by the Missouri Compromise. This would limit the number of new states that would enter as slave states in the future. Much of the Spanish Possessions would lie below the established free/slave boundary if acquired in the future Could either side be considered the winner in this compromise? Why or why not? ✔✔Slavery was divided equally among the states so there was no real "winner", at the end of the compromise there were 12 slave states and 12 free states What were the inhabitants of the portion of the Missouri Territory that was petitioning for statehood authorized to do? ✔✔They were authorized to form a constitution and state government, and to assume a name that seems proper. Also, if a new state is formed it should be admitted into the Union and be equal with the original states Who was eligible to vote and hold office? ✔✔All free white males who were citizens of the United States 21 years and over, who have been in the united states for three months prior to the election were eligible to vote or hold office What form of government were they required to establish? ✔✔They were authorized to establish a republican government that was not repugnant to the constitution of the United States How many representatives would they be given in the House of Representatives until the next census could be taken? ✔✔Until the next general census is taken, the said state should be entitled to one representative in the House of Representatives of the United States

What was the Northwest Ordinance of 1787? ✔✔Established that no state northwest of the Ohio River could be a slave state What are the northern members of Congress afraid of? ✔✔They are afraid of power shifting to the south What did the Southern members of Congress believe that the federal government could not do? ✔✔They believed that the federal government had no business tellings states what they could and could not do When was the Missouri Compromise assigned into law? ✔✔ 1820 What happened in the Missouri Compromise? ✔✔Slavery would not be restricted in Missouri Maine (part of Massachusetts territory) was admitted as a free slave state to the Union True or False? Congress agreed that as the United States expanded westward, territories north of 36° 30′ N latitude in the Louisiana Purchase would be closed to slavery ✔✔True