Question

What did the Missouri Compromise propose?


Missouri would be divided into two states, one a slave state and one a free state.

Southern slave states would have fewer senators than northern free states.

Missouri would be admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

Missouri would hold a popular election to decide whether slavery would be allowed.

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The Missouri Compromise proposed that Missouri would be admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine would be admitted as a free state. This compromise was aimed at maintaining a balance between slave and free states in the Senate. Additionally, it established a line (the 36°30′ parallel) across the Louisiana Territory, north of which slavery would be prohibited (except in Missouri). So the correct answer is:

**Missouri would be admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.**