The representative from New York who proposed an 1819 amendment that would prevent further expansion of slavery in Missouri and grant gradual emancipation to those slaves already there was
A. John C. Calhoun.
B. James Tallmadge Jr.
C. Rufus King.
D. John Jacob Astor.
E. Henry Clay.
Answer: B
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