Question

base your answers to questions 11 and 12 on the map and excerpt below and on your knowledge of social studies.
document 1
map of missouri compromise of 1820
source: http://voteview.com, university of california, san diego (adapted)
document 2
... after the missouri crisis it was no longer possible to pretend that the united states was a single nation with a single set of national interests. although politicians in both north and south worked hard over the next two decades to suppress the issue of slavery in the national debate lest it drive a deeper wedge between the northern and southern wings of both national parties, the society of slaveholders would henceforth be in conflict with the society of free labor....
source: robert kagan, dangerous nation: america’s foreign policy from its earliest days to the dawn of the twentieth century, alfred a. knopf, 2006

1. which of the following claims is supported by both documents 1 and 2?
2. the missouri compromise allowed citizens to vote on whether their state would be a free or slave state
3. the missouri compromise divided the nation into northern free states and southern slave states.
4. the missouri compromise allowed maine to be admitted as a slave state, and missouri as a free state.
5. the missouri compromise settled the debate over expanding slavery into the territories until the u.s. civil war in 1861.
6. in which order did the pre civil war compromises occur?
7. missouri compromise, compromise of 1850, kansas nebraska act
8. kansas nebraska act, missouri compromise, compromise of 1850
9. missouri compromise, kansas nebraska act, compromise of 1850
10. kansas nebraska act, compromise of 1850, missouri compromise

Explanation:

For Question 11:

• Document 1's map clearly divides the U.S. into Northern free states (dark gray) and Southern slave states (light gray) with the Missouri Compromise Line. Document 2 states the Missouri crisis revealed the U.S. was not a single nation, highlighting the split between slaveholding Southern society and free labor Northern society, which aligns with the geographic division in the map.
• Option 1 is incorrect because the Missouri Compromise did not allow popular vote on state status (that was the Kansas-Nebraska Act). Option 3 is wrong because Maine was admitted as a free state, Missouri as a slave state. Option 4 is incorrect because the compromise did not settle the slavery debate permanently, as tensions continued leading to later conflicts.

For Question 12:

• The Missouri Compromise was enacted in 1820, the Compromise of 1850 followed to address new territories from the Mexican-American War, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act (which repealed parts of the Missouri Compromise) was passed in 1854. This is the correct chronological order.

Answer:

1. 2. The Missouri Compromise divided the nation into Northern free states and Southern slave states.
2. 1. Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas Nebraska Act