The Missouri Compromise

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Across
  1. 3. by 1820, America had 22 ___.
  2. 6. did Congress have the right to ___ the future of slavery?
  3. 9. missouri's ___ seemed to violate the US Constitution.
  4. 11. territories in the Louisiana Purchase south of 36'30' would be open to ___.
  5. 13. the dividing line between free and slave states would be the line of ___ 36'30'.
  6. 14. representative who worked out a compromise between the Missouri constitution and the US constitution (two words, no spaces)
Down
  1. 1. territories in the Louisiana Purchase above 36'30' would be __.
  2. 2. representative who proposed an amendment that would limit slavery in Missouri (two words, no spaces)
  3. 4. state that entered the Union as a slave state
  4. 5. the French and ___ had brought slaves to Missouri before the Louisiana Purchase.
  5. 7. people in the ___ felt the Northerners were trying to keep them from expanding.
  6. 8. what Senator Thomas and Representative Clay were trying to get Congress and Missouri to do
  7. 10. month in which Missouri became a state
  8. 12. state that entered the Union as a free state