The Missouri Compromise proposed that ________.

The United States remain evenly balanced between slaveholding states and free states

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Slavery would be allowed only in territories and states south of the northern border of Missouri

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The slave trade would end permanently, but slaveholding states would not have to change their status

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All slaves would be emancipated, but would continue working on plantations for wages

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Plantation owners could keep their slaves but would sign legal agreements to treat them humanely

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The correct option is A The United States remain evenly balanced between slaveholding states and free states
The Missouri Compromise proposed that the United States remain evenly balanced between slave holding states and free states. The slaveholding states feared that if they became outnumbered in Congressional representation that they would lack the power to protect their interests in property and trade.

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