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Missouri Compromise True or False

1. Why did Henry Clay get most of the credit for the Compromise? -> He demanded it.
2. Why did Rufus King get involved in this mess? -> As a mechanism to revive his fallen Federalist Party.
3. What was Pinkney's primary motivator in supporting Missouri as a slave state? -> His home state of Maryland was a slave state.
4. How did Henry Clay unintentional force the issue of Missouri? -> By agitating for an increase in the number of slave states
5. How did Clay earn his moniker the Great Compromiser? -> For his role in moderating and brokering a deal during the Second Missouri Compromise.

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