Question

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free slave state in order to keep the amount of slave states and free states the same. This would avoid the country fighting over the issue of slavery for the time being.

Group of answer choices

True

False

Answer 1

True

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. In 1854, the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.