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Missouri Compromise
Congress orchestrated a two-part compromise, granting Missouri’s request but also admitting Maine as a free state. -
Abolition Movement
It was a movement to try to end slavery. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Douglas wanted a northern Rail Road route but needs southern support -
Bleeding Kansas
Fights break out as people vote for slave or free
Northerners and southerners sneak into Kansas to chart and vote -
Sumner-Brooks incident
N. Senator (sumner) spoke poorly of a S. senator (Butler) while arguing against the expansion of slavery
Butlers cousin (Brooks) beat sumner on senate floor -
Freeport Doctrine
Congress cannot force slavery into new territories. It did not pass
