The Compromise of 1820 was a failure because
a. Missouri entered the Union a free state
b. it failed to settle the question of slavery once and for all
c. it convinced Southerners they had no reason to fear a Northern attack on the continuation of slavery
d. it established the unconstitutional principle of popular sovereignty
e. it set up a formula of free and slave states that could not be achieved
Ans: b. it failed to settle the question of slavery once and for all
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