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What was the main purpose of the Missouri Compromise?

A) To maintain an equal number of slave and free states

B) To prevent a war with Mexico

C) To allow states to decide for themselves if they would allow slavery

D) To outlaw slavery in the United States

Where did the term “iron curtain” originate? the warsaw pact used the term iron curtain as a code word for communism. in a 1946 speech, british prime minister winston churchill said an iron curtain had fallen across the continent of europe. while visiting western europe in 1946, u. s. president harry truman commented that the mountains there looked like iron curtains. russian general secretary joseph stalin instructed citizens of eastern europe to hang iron curtains over their windows to protect themselves from stray bullets.