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maine became a free a state missouri became a slave state, and kansas became a slave territtory
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The Wilmot Proviso, one of the major events leading to the American Civil War, would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future, including the area later known as the Mexican Cession, but which some proponents construed to also include the disputed lands in south Texas and New Mexico east of the Rio Grande.[1]
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california entered as a free state
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The law meant that if slaves went across to the north they had to be brought back by the the northerners
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A book that described how terrible slavery was
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he was beaten by presten brooks because he was talking about anti-slavery
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fighting over weather it should be free or a slave state
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the debate was about slavery
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south carolina left the union
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