The debates in Congress in 1819 about whether Missouri would be admitted as a free state or a slave state
A) were punctuated by heated political rhetoric including threats of disunion that was harsher than Congress had heard in a long time.
B) did not reflect growing sectional divisions in the country between the commercial North and the agricultural South.
C) were even more vitriolic than future debates about slavery in the 1840s and 1850s.
D) were influenced by the many radical abolitionists in the North and the many defenders of slavery in the South who asserted the institution was a wholly positive good.
Answer: A
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