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What was the Missouri Compromise, and what impact did it have on the United States?
A. It ended slavery in the United States, making all states free.
B. It allowed all states to decide individually whether they would permit slavery without any restrictions.
C. It created a new political party focused on abolishing slavery in the South.
D. It allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while establishing a boundary line for the future expansion of slavery.
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The Missouri Compromise (1820) admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state to keep a Senate balance, and it established the 36°30′ north latitude line: slavery was prohibited in the remaining Louisiana Territory north of that line (except Missouri). It temporarily eased sectional tensions but was later undermined by the Kansas–Nebraska Act (1854) and Dred Scott (1857).
The Missouri Compromise (1820) admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state to keep a Senate balance, and it established the 36°30′ north latitude line: slavery was prohibited in the remaining Louisiana Territory north of that line (except Missouri). It temporarily eased sectional tensions but was later undermined by the Kansas–Nebraska Act (1854) and Dred Scott (1857).
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