How did policy makers compromise over the question of slavery in the West?

Politicians were forced to deal with the issue of slavery and its westward expansion as early as the Missouri Compromise of 1820. ... Henry Clay of Kentucky temporarily solved the issue by crafting the Missouri Compromise, bringing Missouri into the Union as a Slave State and, as a balance, Maine entered as a Free State.

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