Answer: the correct answer is C) one of them did not actually cause the other to occur.
Explanation: a correlation between variables, however, does not automatically indicates that the change in one variable is the reason or the cause of the change in the values of the other variable. Causation indicates that one event is the result of the occurrence of the other event; i.e. there is a causal linkage between the two events.
First, Missouri would be admitted to the union as a slave state, but would be balanced by the admission of Maine, a free state, that had long wanted to be separated from Massachusetts. Second, slavery was to be excluded from all new states in the Louisiana Purchase north of the southern boundary of Missouri.
The answer is d to this question
