Write a summary of the Missouri Compromise using the following terms: -Slave State

-Free State

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-Maine

-Congressional Representation

i do believe its (d) it allowed the government to offer pioneers sixty acres of western land if they lived on it and made improvements to it.

explanation: signed into law in may 1862, the homestead act opened up settlement in the western united states, allowing any american, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land. by the end of the civil war, 15,000 homestead claims had been established, and more followed in the postwar years

a system of cooperative federalism emerged, as the powers of the federal government expanded.