The Missouri Compromise of 1820, a legislative effort to mediate the radical differences between slaveholders and abolitionists, did not achieve its goal and thus is remembered by history as a failure, just the first of more than a half-dozen attempts to avert sectional civil war.
1) just the first of more than a half-dozen attempts to avert
2) just the first of a half-dozen more attempts to avert
3) and the first attempt of more than a half-dozen attempts to avert
4) and just the first of more than a half-dozen attempts averting
5) and just the first of more than a half-dozen attempts aimed at averting
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OA A
1) just the first of more than a half-dozen attempts to avert
2) just the first of a half-dozen more attempts to avert
3) and the first attempt of more than a half-dozen attempts to avert
4) and just the first of more than a half-dozen attempts averting
5) and just the first of more than a half-dozen attempts aimed at averting
Just was not able to understand this. Please help out.
OA A
