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It admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.It maintained the balance of power between slave and free states.
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The gage rule made it so senators from the north and the south of Congress could not debate over slavery in congress. It lasted 10 years.
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slavery will never be in lands won in the Mexican-American War. -
She was a escaped slave who took the undrground railroad and then would go back to the south to help many more slaves escape.
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The fugitive slave act was added and the slave trade in Washington, D.C. was abolished.
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This book made northerners more angry about slavery. -
It created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to determine whether slavery would be allowed or not in the new territories. -
It shaped the American politics and helped start the civil war. -
A debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas to become U.S. senator. -
Brown planned to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown wanted to use the weapons to arm slaves for a rebellion that would end slavery but his rebellion failed.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected for president of the united states.