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How did Congress come to a resolusion and who was the main author? (Missouri Compromise)​

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Maine and Missouri: A Two-Part Compromise This time, Speaker of the House Henry Clay proposed that Congress admit Missouri to the Union as a slave state, but at the same time admit Maine (which at the time was part of Massachusetts) as a free state. ... I considered it at once as the knell of the Union.

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