Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820, Maine was admitted to the Union as a "free" state, and Missouri was permitted to adopt a state constitution that did not restrict slavery. This compromise was overturned 34 years later by the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which allowed slavery in Kansas, where it had originally been proscribed.
a. a Southern slave owner with business interests in the Kansas territory.
b. an apple farmer in Maine.
c. a black man living in the Kansas territory.
d. a freed slave who lived near the border between Kansas and Nebraska.
e. the Emigrant Aid Company, which organized antislavery immigration to the Kansas territory.
2007-03-12 15:32:20 · 3 answers · asked by Lizs Boo S 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
How about looking it up in the book or Wikipedia? We did our homework!
2007-03-12 15:36:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This answer is easy to find on google.com came up with 620 hits for it.
www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/kanneb.htm
www.u-s-history.com/pages/h83.html
members.aol.com/TeacherNet/civilwar.html
2007-03-16 11:54:12 · answer #2 · answered by allen w 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a.
2007-03-12 17:29:34 · answer #3 · answered by debop44 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋