Besides admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, the Missouri Compromise provided that
a. slavery would not be permitted anywhere in the Louisiana Purchase territory north of the southern boundary of Missouri, except in Missouri itself.
b. the number of proslavery and antislavery members of the House of Representatives would be kept permanently equal.
c. the international slave trade would be permanently ended.
d. slavery would be gradually ended in the District of Columbia.
e. the United States would promote the settlement of free blacks in Liberia.
Answer: A