Question 3 • ECTC-AL-United States History I: Beginnings to the Industrial Revolution B
The Senate was evenly divided between free states and slave states in 1819, with 11 states in each group. The Tallmadge Amendment’s restriction on slavery in Missouri split senators largely along sectional lines, producing a tie. Because a tied vote did not pass the amendment, it failed. So the correct choice is “the Senate was equally divided between the North and the South.”
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