Question

What was the significance of the Missouri Compromise?
A.
to reduce conflict by allowing more free states than slave states
B.
to reduce conflict by demanding an end to slavery in all slave states
C.
to reduce conflict by allowing more slave states than free states
D.
to reduce conflict by keeping the amount of slave and free states equal

Answer 1

D. It kept the number of slave and free states equal (admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state) to reduce sectional conflict.