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The Missouri Compromise

Question 8 • ECTC-AL-United States History I: Beginnings to the Industrial Revolution B

Which proposed that no new enslaved person could enter Missouri in 1819?

Answer
A
the Tallmadge Amendment
B
the Missouri Compromise
C
the Louisiana Purchase
D
the Emancipation Proclamation

Explanation

The Tallmadge Amendment, proposed in 1819, sought to prohibit any more enslaved people from entering Missouri and to gradually emancipate children born into slavery there. The Missouri Compromise was the later settlement of the dispute, not the proposal described in the question.

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