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Missouri added as a Slave State Maine added as a Free State Set a Pattern of adding two states at a time in order to maintain peace Missouri Compromise(1820)

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Missouri added as a Slave State Maine added as a Free State Set a Pattern of adding two states at a time

in order to maintain peace

Missouri Compromise(1820)

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Henry Clay came up with the Idea

California added as Free State

Fugitive Slave Law was passed to hunt down slaves that escaped to the North

Compromise of 1850

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No compromise could be made in order to add Kansas and Nebraska…..

So Stephen Douglass Proposed the idea of Popular Sovereignty (People living in each terrioty would vote to determine if the states would be free or slave)

Led to Bloody Kansas

Kansas-Nebraska Act

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John Brown was a white abolitionist He wanted to spark slave uprisings. He (along with 18 others) raided and

captured a US arsenal at harpers Ferry….Killing 4.

Sent word that he was going to arm local slaves to create an uprising

He failed…was convicted of murder and treason

John Browns Raid

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After Dred Scott case…Republicans claimed that all Democrats wanted to make slavery legal everywhere.

Lincoln and Douglass… then had a series of formal debates addressing the nations problems. (Both were running for a Senate seat in Illinois…Lincoln lost)

Lincoln-Federal Government should decide the issue of slavery

Douglass-States should decide through Popular Sovereignty

Lincoln Douglass Debates