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Events on Friday 10 August 1821 1
1821Missouri admitted as the 24th US stateCompletion of the Missouri CompromiseMissouri entered the Union as a slave state following the 1820 compromise that admitted Maine as a free state to preserve the balance in Congress. The admission intensified sectional debate over slavery's expansion.