What happened to Maine after the Missouri compromise?

Answer 1

After the Missouri Compromise of 1820, Maine was admitted to the Union as a free state, balancing the admission of Missouri as a slave state. This compromise aimed to maintain the political equilibrium between free and slave states, which was increasingly contentious. Maine's admission helped to temporarily ease tensions over the expansion of slavery in the United States but did not resolve the underlying conflicts, which would continue to escalate in the following decades.