Question
One of the main goals of the Missouri Compromise was to:
A.
give individual landowners the choice over whether to use the labor of enslaved people.
B.
pressure Missouri to join the country as a free state.
C.
maintain a balance of power between slave states and free states.
D.
ensure that slavery would die out gradually within a few decades.
A.
give individual landowners the choice over whether to use the labor of enslaved people.
B.
pressure Missouri to join the country as a free state.
C.
maintain a balance of power between slave states and free states.
D.
ensure that slavery would die out gradually within a few decades.
Answers
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The main goal of the Missouri Compromise was to:
C. maintain a balance of power between slave states and free states.
The compromise aimed to address the sectional conflict between the North and South over the expansion of slavery by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, keeping the balance in Congress.
C. maintain a balance of power between slave states and free states.
The compromise aimed to address the sectional conflict between the North and South over the expansion of slavery by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, keeping the balance in Congress.