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- Congress then developed a boundary between Texas and the US and created the Fugitive Slave Act: an act that would ensure that escaped slaves in the North were to be captured and returned to their owners.
- If Missouri is added to the Union, it will offset the balance of free to slave states! What should we do?
- I don't know. We cannot afford to add Missouri to the Union as a free state, or we will upset the Southerners. And the same goes for the North if we make it a slave state!
- I know! Let's make all states below 36˚30' latitude slave states, and all states above 36˚30' latitude free states.
- That is perfect! And because Maine also wants to join the Union, it will keep both the North and South happy.
- The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 caused much controversy. Both slavery supporters and anti-slavery supporters rushed to the new territories to tip the tides of popular sovereignty.
- In 1850, California requested to join the Union as a free state, which angered the South, seeing as it would offset the balance of free to slave states. To make things worse, Washington called for the abolition of slave trade.
- The controversy over what type of state Kansas would become built over time. Overtime, the Confederate Army formed, an army of pro-slavery supporters. This was the beginning of the Civil War.
- Slavery is a cruel, unjust act. I say Kansas deserves to have free soil!
- Kansas should be a slave state!
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