Quiz for Comparative Analysis: Protesting the Missouri Compromise
Choose the best answer to each question.
1. What does Timothy Claimight argue will happen in Missouri before Maine will “yield” to the creation of a slave state?
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2. What issue does Thomas Jefferson consider to be a possible “knell of the Union”?
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3. What event does Jefferson portend in his reference to a geographical line cutting “deeper and deeper” based on a “moral and political” issue?
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4. Based on Claimright and Jefferson’s statements, what can be said about the American view toward slavery in the early 1800s?
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