Question

How were northern lawmakers convinced to allow Missouri into the union as a slave state under the Missouri Compromise?

A. Ohio was added to the United States as a free state.
B. The Florida territory was also added to the United States.
C. Maine was added to the United States as a free state.
D. Slaves were now taxed as four-fifths of a person.

Answer 1

How were northern lawmakers convinced to allow Missouri into the union as a slave state under the Missouri Compromise?

C. Maine was added to the United States as a free state.

Answer 2

Correct answer choice is :

C) Maine was added to the United States as a free state.

Step-by-step explanation:

On March 3, 1820, Congress declared a bill allowing Missouri statehood as a slave state under the circumstance that slavery was to be always banned in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th parallel, which runs roughly along the southern border of Missouri. The mission of the Missouri Compromise was to keep a stability between the number of slave states and the number of free states in the Union. It let Missouri enter as a slave state at the same time Maine enrolled as a free state, thus preserving asymmetry in numbers of free and slave states.