Missouri Compromise

Question 1

Who was it put together by?

Answer 1

Henry Clay

Question 2

What happened?

Answer 2

Congress admitted Missouri as a slave state while Maine was admitted as a free state

Question 3

What was kept?

Answer 3

The balance of the North and South was kept at 12 states for 15 years

Question 4

What was Missouri permitted to do?

Answer 4

Missouri could retain states

Question 5

What happened to slavery?

Answer 5

and all future bondage prohibited north of the line of 36 30 in Louisiana Purchase
- There was no slavery allowed north of Missouri’s southern border in territories

Question 6

What did the South win?

Answer 6

They won Missouri as an unrestricted slave

Question 7

What did the North win?

Answer 7

They won the concession that Congress could forbid slavery in the remaining territories

Question 8

Did it solve the problem of slavery?

Answer 8

No, it did not

Question 9

Why was it created?

Answer 9

Created to keep the unity between slave and free states/to avoid uproar between the North and the South