Who crafted the Missouri Compromise, which was passed in 1820?

Henry Clay helped craft the Missouri Compromise, which Congress passed in 1820 to address the balance between free and slave states. It admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while restricting slavery in the remaining Louisiana Territory north of a set boundary. Stephen Austin, Thomas Jefferson, and James Tallmadge were not the principal architect of the compromise.

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