Henry clay’s missouri compromise was significant because?

The Missouri Compromise, signed in 1820 by President Monroe, provided the necessary legal base for the incorporation of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. This alternance was important (one incorporation of a free state together with the incorporation of a salve one ) contributed to maintain the necessary balance between the North and South in the US Senate.

Henry Clay was Speaker of the House of Representatives and worked hard to ensure the compromise and to break the blocking in the negotiations between South and North.

mount st. helens in washington erupts, causing a massive avalanche and killing 57 people on this day in 1980. ash from the volcanic eruption fell as far away as minnesota. seismic activity at mount st. helens, which is 96 miles south of seattle, began on march 16.