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The Missouri Compromise, otherwise known as the Compromise of 1820 was when Maine and Missouri became a state. Maine became a free state, while Missouri became a slave state in order to keep a balance of slave to free state ratio. Also, anything below the 36°30' line was known to be a slave state, and everything north of it was free from slavery.

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