The Missouri Compromise proposed that
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- A.the United States remain evenly balanced between slaveholding states and free states
- B.slavery would be allowed only in territories and states south of the northern border of Missouri
- C.the slave trade would end permanently, but slaveholding states would not have to change their status
- D.all slaves would be emancipated, but would continue working on plantations for wages
- E.plantation owners could keep their slaves but would sign legal agreements to treat them humanely
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