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The Missouri Compromise is negotiated allowing Maine to be admitted to the Union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state in 1821. This act will maintain a balance between free and slave states. The compromise establishes the 36 degree, 30' parallel of latitude as a dividing line between free and slave areas of the territories.
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It was created to protect the economy of the North
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Lead by black abolitionist Robert Purvis, the Underground Railroad is formally organized.
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2 states were slave 2 were free
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The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States congress.
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