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In US history, the solution by Congress
(1820-21) of a sectional crisis caused by the
1819 request from Missouri for admission to
the union as a slave state, despite its
proximity to existing nonslave states. The
compromise was the simultaneous admission of
Maine as a nonslave state to keep the same
ratio.