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Noun: Missouri Compromise
  1. An agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories

Type of: compromise, halfway house [Brit, informal]

Encyclopedia: Missouri Compromise

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