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admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time. -
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September -
he act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.
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repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty.
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the struggles of a slave, Tom, who has been sold numerous times and has to endure physical brutality by slave drivers and his masters.
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upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional. -
helped make any further accommodation between North and South nearly impossible and thus became an important impetus of the Civil War.
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In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin won a national popular plurality, a popular majority in the North where states already had abolished slavery, and a national electoral majority comprising only Northern electoral votes. -
increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the Institution of Slavery.