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Based on these documents, what were two effects the Missouri Compromise had on the nation? Essay question: Discuss the impact of the Missouri Compromise on the nation. Did it hinder or help the spread of slavery in America?

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Answer: First, Missouri would be admitted to the union as a slave state, but would be balanced by the admission of Maine, a free state, that had long wanted to be separated from Massachusetts. Second, slavery was to be excluded from all new states in the Louisiana Purchase north of the southern boundary of Missouri.

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