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Sectionalism in the United States became a major problem in 1819 when Missouri applied for statehood as a slave state. This threatened to upset the balance of power in the Senate between slave and free states. The Missouri Compromise solved this by admitting Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. Sectionalism also played a role in Abraham Lincoln

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