Question

What was the compromise made in the Missouri Compromise?

To create a slave state and a non-slave state

To create a free state where fugitive slaves could live

To establish a line between slave and non-slave states

To settle a disagreement between Missouri and Arkansas

Answer 1

The first one “ to create a slave state and a non slave state” because they wanted to balance the number of the pro-slavery and anti-slavery states and with the Missouri compromise Missouri would enter/volunteer to be a slave state and main as a free state

Answer 2

To create a slave state and a non-slave state

Step-by-step explanation:

"In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state."