A. the Missouri Compromise was illegal because it was illegal for Congress to deprive a slave owner of property (slaves) without the due process of law.
B. the Compromise of 1850 was illegal because it was illegal for Congress to deprive a slave owner of property (slaves) without the due process of law.
C. the Missouri Compromise was illegal because it was illegal for Congress to deprive a slave of his or her freedom if they lived in the South.
D. the Missouri Compromise was illegal because it freed slaves in the slave states
A, the Missouri compromise marked slaves above a line as free and those below slaves, dread Scott was the slave of a doctor who moved a lot and had died in a free state :)
