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Missouri Compromise of 1820
This compromise stated that Missouri was approved as slave state and Maine can be separated from Massachusetts as a free state. All the states at north of the 36°30′ latitude line forbad slavery except Missouri. It makes the number of the slave states and the number of free states equal so that the balance between the South and the North won't break.
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Compromise of 1850
In this compromise, California entered Union as a free state; Slave trade was forbidden in Washington D.C; created a new boundary between Texas and New Mexico; Utah and New Mexico did not have slavery restriction; Fugitive Slavery Act was passed. This compromise let the South stay in federal but the anti-slavery movements in the North became more drastic.
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Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Because many slaves in South escaped to Northern area, the South states created a law to allow slave owners and government officers to capture the escaping slaves with a claim of ownership. This Act showed the highly admission of human slavery in South and make anti-slavery movements in the North more intense.
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Bleeding Kansas
This War was highly influenced by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It stated from 1854 to 1859. Because Kansas and Nebraska were not slave states, so many people in Missouri moved to there. People remained in Missouri and other South states began guerrilla warfares with people in Kansas. The problem was finally solved when Kansas became a free state. The relationship between Slavery and Capitalism became worse.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
This act separated Nebraska into two states -- Kansas and Nebraska without determining they are free states or slave states. The original aim is developing the western part of America. This act let residents choose what they want to be and it against the Missouri Compromise of 1820. After this Act passed, the Missouri expanded the slavery business to the west so that many North people strongly object to this act.
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Abraham Lincoln Elected President
Abraham Lincoln was the first republican president in history. He protested slavery and separation of the U.S.The main idea of the country will be confirm and the slavery would not be a right thoughts in the nation any more. This event showed that the power of the South was decreasing and it also became one of the direct causes of Civil War. The South's interests were also failing by the results of the election.
This event increasing the tensions between the North and the South.
