How did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 ease the conflict between the North and the South?

A.
It exchanged Texas war debts for land.

B.
It abolished the national Fugitive Slave Act.

C.
It admitted California, Utah, and New Mexico as Free-Soil states

D.
It abolished slavery in the Louisiana Territory above latitude 36°30′.

D. It abolished slavery in the Louisiana Territory above latitude 36°30′.

D