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How did the Missouri Compromise solve the problem of keeping the balance of power in the US Senate between free and slave states?

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  • The Missouri Compromise was United States federal legislation that admitted Maine to the United States as a free state, simultaneously with Missouri as a slave state, thus maintaining the balance of power between North and South in the US Senate.
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