How did the Missouri Compromise deal with the issue of slavery?

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Responses

A It required all territories to abolish slavery before becoming states.It required all territories to abolish slavery before becoming states.

B It made the Mississippi River the divding line between slave states and free states.It made the Mississippi River the divding line between slave states and free states.

C It prohibited slavery in most of the former Louisiana Territory except for Missouri.It prohibited slavery in most of the former Louisiana Territory except for Missouri.

D It stated that all future states would be required to be slave states except for Missouri.

Answer 1

The correct response is:

C It prohibited slavery in most of the former Louisiana Territory except for Missouri.

The Missouri Compromise, enacted in 1820, allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state while prohibiting slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of the latitude 36°30′. This was an effort to balance the power between slave and free states in the Senate.