Explain how the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 attempted to settle those divisions and whether or not those compromises were effective in solving the divide between anti-slavery and pro-slavery factions in the United States.

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 sought to maintain balance between slave and free states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. The Compromise of 1850 attempted to address the issue of slavery in new territories acquired from Mexico. However, both compromises only temporarily resolved tensions and ultimately failed to prevent the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861.