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Long-staple cotton is discovered in Egypt; cotton production will soon become more than 20 percent of the agricultural output of the nation. This discovery has serious effects on cotton production and prices in the Southern states of the United States.
3 March In an attempt to appease proslavery and antislavery factions, Congress passes the Missouri Compromise: Missouri is admitted as a slave state; Maine becomes a free state; and slavery is prohibited in the northern parts of the Louisiana Purchase.
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