Question

What did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 accomplish?
A) It gave the North more votes in the Senate.
B) It allowed slavery in most of the Louisiana Purchase territory.
C) It maintained the balance between slave and free states.
D) It gave slave states more power in the Senate.

Answer 1

answer:

C

What did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 accomplish?

A) It gave the North more votes in the Senate.

B) It allowed slavery in most of the Louisiana Purchase territory.

C. it maintained the balance between slave and free state

D) It gave slave states more power in the Senate

Explanation:

Enacted in 1820 to maintain the balance of power in Congress, the Missouri Compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.