Why was the Missouri Compromise necessary? (Choose 3)

Slaveholding states were worried that anti-slavery legislation might make it through Congress if there was not an equal number of slave and free states.

Abolitionists did not want to add new slaveholding areas to the Union.

Northern states threatened to secede if slavery was allowed in western states.

Abolitionists demanded support for states’ rights to self-determination on the slavery issue.

Slaveholding states thought that new states should be able to determine whether or not to allow slavery.

Free African Americans demanded a place they could live with the same freedoms and protections as other citizens enjoyed.