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Answer:
To create a slave state and a non-slave state
Explanation:
"In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state."
The first one “ to create a slave state and a non slave state” because they wanted to balance the number of the pro-slavery and anti-slavery states and with the Missouri compromise Missouri would enter/volunteer to be a slave state and main as a free state