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Missouri Comprimise
Main wanted to be admitted as a free state while Missouri didn't. In 1820 Henry clay the senator convinced congress to adopt the Missouri compromise. It allowed Maine to be admitted as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. It also made the north of the Louisiana territory of the southern border of Missouri a free state. It gave southern slave owners a clear right to pursue fugitives into free regions and return them to slavery. -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmont Proviso paid attention to the territory gained by Mexico in 1848. So, David Wilmont of Pennsylvania proposed that congress ban slavery in all areas that could become part o the united states. It went through the House of Reaps and then failed in the Senate. It aroused a big concern in the South. -
The Comprimise of 1850
