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Why was the Missouri Compromise passed? to allow the citizens in Missouri to make decisions about whether their state would allow enslavement to resolve the issue of which states would be free and which states would allow enslavement in the future to provide a way for enslavement to eventually be banned from all states to settle land disputes among territories in the Louisiana Purchase​

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Answer: The Missouri Compromise was passed to resolve the issue of which states would be free and which states would allow enslavement in the future.

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