One of the key components of the sectional Missouri Compromise negotiated by Henry Clay was
a. a guarantee that there would always be an equal number of slave and free states.
b. a congressional prohibition on slavery in the Louisiana territory north of the southern boundary of Missouri.
c. the admission of Missouri as a slave state and Iowa as a free state.
d. a guarantee that no new slave territories could be added to the United States.
e. prohibition of the international slave trade and restrictions on slave trading with the United States.
Answer: B