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How did Missouri’s application as a slave state in 1819 challenge us law

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States north of the Ohio River were to be free states

the U.S. Congress passed a law that admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while banning slavery from the remaining Louisiana Purchase lands located north of the 36º 30' parallel.

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