What significant issue did the Missouri Compromise aim to resolve?

A) giving land to Native Americans
B) the protective tariff
C) slaves being treated as property
D) the extension of slavery
E) the abolition of slavery

Missouri Compromise

A significant legislative agreement passed in 1820 in the United States, admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, maintaining a balance between slave and free states.

Slavery Extension

The political and social debate over the expansion of slavery into new territories or states in a country.

Protective Tariff

A tariff imposed on imports to protect domestic industries from foreign competition by increasing the cost of imported goods, thereby making local goods more competitively priced.