Controversy erupted over the Tallmadge Amendment that required Missouri to gradually abolish slavery because?

Question

a. the south did not think slavery was natural in Missouri
b. the states wanted to admit Missouri as a slave state
c. Southerners believed slaves were property that the Consititution protected
d, slavery was a dying institution

Answer 1

a is obviously wrong, as the south was pro-slavery in Missouri.
While southerners did believe slavery were property, there is nothing in the Constitution defending that right.
Slavery, unfortunately, was not a dying institution in 1820.

So the answer is b.
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Answer 2

b. the states wanted to admit Missouri as a slave state because in the Compromise of 1820 there was a clause which stated that Maine would be admitted as a free state and Missouri as a slave state