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The Missouri Compromise, enacted in 1820, aimed to balance the power between slave and free states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It established a boundary line for slavery in the Louisiana Territory, which temporarily eased tensions between the North and South. However, while it provided a short-term solution, it ultimately failed to resolve the underlying conflicts over slavery, contributing to rising sectionalism and eventually the Civil War. Thus, its helpfulness can be seen as limited and temporary.

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