After several southern states threatened to secede from the Union, the Crittenden Compromise attempted to stop them from seceding by:
A) offering to extend the Missouri Compromise line of 1820 all the way to the Pacific, excluding California.
B) reinstating the slave trade in the District of Columbia.
C) allowing slave owners to establish slavery in the West.
D) promising to reimburse plantation owners for the cost of each slave that they freed.
E) agreeing to put the major hub of the transcontinental railroad in the South.
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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A) Texas became an independent territory. B) up to four new states could be created from its territory. C) the territory of Texas was required to remain consolidated. D) Texas had to wait ten years until it could be granted full statehood.