In the early 1800s, at the time the missouri territory requested statehood,
a. there were more slave states than free states.
b. there were more free states than slave states.
c. there was an equal number of slave and free states.
d. there was no longer a division over slavery.

the correct answer is  C

c. there was an equal number of slave and free states.

Explanation:

In November 1818, the Missouri regional council embraced a solicitation for statehood, and it presented the solicitation to the U.S. Congress in December 1818. However, what might some way or another have been a standard confirmation wound up buried in a national discussion because of the sensitive harmony among slave and free states.

The Missouri governing body had mentioned affirmation as a slave state, yet abolitionist individuals from Congress appended revisions to the enactment tolerating Missouri as a state.[64] In 1820, the Missouri Compromise made room for Missouri's entrance to the association as a slave state, alongside Maine, a free state, to safeguard the parity.

Furthermore, the Missouri Compromise expressed that the rest of the bit of the Louisiana Territory over the 36°30′ line was to be free from bondage. This equivalent year, the primary Missouri constitution was embraced. The next year, 1821, Missouri was conceded as the 24th state, with the state capital incidentally situated in Saint Charles until a perpetual capital could be fabricated. Missouri was the primary state altogether west of the Mississippi River to be admitted to the Union. The state capital moved to Jefferson City in 1826.

c

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