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What was the purpose of the Missouri Compromise?

to encourage the North and the South to have separate economies

to maintain an equal number of senators from the North and the South

to set rules for immigration into the United States

to allow new states to decide whether they would ban enslavement

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I'm pretty sure it's "to allow new states to decide whether they would ban enslavement"

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