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Why the Missouri Compromise? Because it starts with the Mason-Dixon line. Why the Mason-Dixon line? To determine if Henri lives in what would be a slave state in 1850. Why 1850? Because Henri is young and therefore wrong. And how does that impact billed work? Not in a good way...