How did the Missouri Compromise, proposed by Henry Clay, try to resolve the slavery problem?

It mandated all territories eliminate slavery before becoming states

It banned slavery in much of the previous Louisiana Territory except for Missouri.

It made the Mississippi River the boundary between slave states and free states.

It required all future states to be slave states except Missouri

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Ramiro Moran

28 January, 16:07

How did the Missouri Compromise, proposed by Henry Clay, try to resolve the slavery problem?

It mandated all territories eliminate slavery before becoming states

It banned slavery in much of the previous Louisiana Territory except for Missouri.

It made the Mississippi River the boundary between slave states and free states.

It required all future states to be slave states except Missouri

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Chanel Watson · Answer 1

The answer to this question is It banned slavery in much of the previous Louisiana Territory except for Missouri.

The missouri compromise was enacted in 1820 as an effort that created by the government in order to balance the power between the northern states and the southern states that voiced by, Representative James Tallmadge Jr., a Jeffersonian Republican from New York