What agreement did Congress come to in the Missouri Compromise?
A) With the admission of each additional slave state, a free state would also be admitted.
B) The question of abolishing slavery would be put off until 1850.
C) Missouri would be admitted as a slave state, but no additional slave states would be allowed in the Union.
D) Land to the north of a certain latitude would be free, and land to the south would be slave territory.
E) Land gained by the Louisiana Purchase would be slave territory, but any additional territory would be free.
Ans: D) Land to the north of a certain latitude would be free, and land to the south would be slave territory.
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