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What is an important fact about the Missouri Compromise?

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It essentially limited the spread of slavery and kept most new states and the western states free states. In doing so, it prevented secession of the slave states at that time. It also admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. (Entering the Union wise)
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