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Missouri Compromise
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. The North and South thought it was fair because the Senate stayed balanced instead of one side becoming more powerful because it had one more slave state or free state. The North was happy because the act didn't allow slavery past the 30 degree 36' parallel. -
Compromise of 1850 Fugitive Slave Law
If there is a fugitive slave you cannot house them or if you know of somebody hiding a fugitive slave you have to contact authorities and report them. The Northerners were very unhappy because if they tried to house a fugitive slave or they knew someone who was housing fugitive slaves they would get arrested. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
In 1854 Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois presented a bill destined to be one of the most consequential pieces of legislation in our national history. Ostensibly a bill “to organize the Territory of Nebraska,” an area covering the present-day states of Kansas, Nebraska, Montana, and the Dakotas, contemporaries called it “the Nebraska bill.” Today, we know it as the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. -
Dred Scott decision 1857
Dred Scott sued for his freedom but he lost. The North was really angry because he lost and stayed a slave.