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What did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 accomplish?

A.
It maintained the balance between slave and free states.

B.
It gave slave states more power in the Senate.

C.
It allowed slavery in most of the Louisiana Purchase territory.

D.
It gave the North more votes in the Senate.

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c is the correct answer

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Well it allowed Missouri to be a slave state and Maine a free state while making slavery prohibeted in the louisiana purchace north of latitude 36 30n except missouri
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