The growing sectionalism over the issue of slavery
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The Missouri Compromise temporarily solved a dispute over slavery by keeping the number of slave and free states equal. It was later replaced by the Compromise of 1850.
The Missouri Compromise temporarily settled the debate over slavery by allowing Missouri enter the Union as a slave state. Maine was allowed to enter the Union as a free state.
To address the conflict over slavery
Clay and Calhoun worked out a compromise tariff.
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