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A line in the sand, banning slavery anywhere North of a particular parallel in all the territories acquired from France in the Louisiana Purchase.

This would keep a balance between slave-states and free soil, so that voting in Congress would be even-handed.

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its not slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36° 30' north latitude line, with the exception of Missouri to me Missouri be admitted as a slave state sounds like the one but what ever

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Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

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