Compromise and Southern Fears
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- We need a compromise to keep the union together
- I got it! We will admit Missouri as a slave state, and admit Maine as a free one. That way there will be balance. For now...
- The Missouri Compromise
- With new land being considered to become a state of the U.S. there is much controversy if California should be a free state or not. So the compromise of 1850 was made...
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas Nebraska Act
- But little did anyone know that this lead to bleeding Kansas, which lead to a war inside Kansas with one side supporting slavery and the other one not.
- I request that the people living in the state should decide if they want slavery or not. We will call this popular sovereignty.
- There has been much controversy, with adding Kansas and Nebraska as a free or slave state. Stephen Douglass requested this...
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