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Who crafted the Missouri Compromise, which was passed in 1820?

Thomas Jefferson
Henry Clay
James Tallmadge
Stephen Austin

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Henry Clay then skillfully led the forces of compromise, engineering separate votes on the controversial measures. On March 3, 1820, the decisive votes in the House admitted Maine as a free state, Missouri as a slave state, and made free soil all western territories north of Missouri's southern border.

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Henry Clay

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