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title: "How did the Missouri Compromise, proposed by Henry Clay, try to resolve the slavery problem?"  
description: "How did the Missouri Compromise, proposed by Henry Clay, try to resolve the slavery problem?"  
author: "Peterson arnold"  
published: 2018-04-26  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41972/how-did-the-missouri-compromise-proposed-by-henry-clay-try-to-resolve-the-slavery-problem  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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

How did the [Missouri Compromise](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41053/explain-why-the-missouri-compromise-line-did-not-provide-a-solution-to-the-problem-of-california-s-statehood), [proposed by Henry Clay](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41707/what-happened-when-the-tariff-proposed-by-henry-clay-passed-in-1832), try to [resolve](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2348/google-will-pay-close-to-400-million-to-resolve-a-us-location-tracking-investigation) the slavery problem? \
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