Question

When the admission of new states threatened the balance of free and slave states in the Union, which Kentucky Senator drew up the "Missouri Compromise" in 1820?

A) Henry Clay
B) Andrew Jackson
C) John C. Calhoun
D) William H. Harrison

Answer 1

c

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Answer 2

Henry Clay

Clay helped broker a compromise over the status of slavery in the Mexican Cession. 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.