Why were senior statesmen like Thomas Jefferson dismayed by the decisions made in the Missouri Compromise? Group of answer choices Slaveholders like Jefferson did not want to see slavery limited in any way by federal law. Jefferson felt popular sovereignty was the best way to decide questions of the expansion of slavery. Jefferson felt the time was right to demand more land from Spain to give slaveholders room to expand. He had hoped for a final solution to the issue of slavery, rather than one that simply put the matter off l

Why were senior statesmen like Thomas Jefferson dismayed by the decisions made in the Missouri Compromise? Group of answer choices Slaveholders like Jefferson did not want to see slavery limited in any way by federal law. Jefferson felt popular sovereignty was the best way to decide questions of the expansion of slavery. Jefferson felt the time was right to demand more land from Spain to give slaveholders room to expand. He had hoped for a final solution to the issue of slavery, rather than one that simply put the matter off l