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How did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 maintain the balance of free and slave states?
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How did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 maintain the balance of free and slave states?

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The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, but kept the balance by also making Maine a free state, which meant that there was an equal amount of slave and free states in the US
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