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CLEP US History I

Category - Politics

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Missouri had difficulty being admitted to the United States for which of the following reasons?
  1. Political tensions between Missouri and Kansas made statehood progress difficult.
  2. It was unclear whether Missouri would be considered a Western or Southern state.
  3. Missouri did not meet the population requirements for statehood.
  4. Northern states did not want to include more slave states in the US.
  5. Missourians refused to ratify a state constitution.
Explanation
Answer: D - Although Missouri met the official requirements for statehood, its admission stalled in congress because it wanted to be admitted as a slave-holding state, while the North did not want to further empower the South or approve the spread of slavery. Missourians became quite agitated that their freedom to maintain their cotton farms was being threatened, and it took the admission of Maine as a free state in the Missouri Compromise to resolve the issue. The bitterness over this delay would reemerge when Kansas applied for statehood.
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