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mar 3, 1820 - Missouri Compromise Mar 3 1820, states' rights issue

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Agreement where Missouri was admitted as slave state and Maine as free state to keep Congress in balance. A line for slave and free states went along the 36°30' parallel. All states under that were allowed to have slaves and those ones above that weren't.

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mar 3, 1820
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~ 205 years ago

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