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Missouri can be a slave state,but any territory north of 36 degrees 30' latitude line prohibited slavery. Most of the Louisiana territory is slave.
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Andrew Jackson passed an act where the south has to pay taxes from imported goods from other countries.
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Abolitionists helped slaves escape from the south to the north to be free.
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The south refused to pay the tariffs of 1828 and 1832.
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President Jackson had the power to use the military to make South Carolina pay the tariffs.
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The North must return escaped slaves to the south.
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California wants permission to join the Union as a free state. It upsets the balance between free and slave states.
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Kansas and Nebraska had the right whether they want to be slave states or free states.
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It was political confrontations between anti and pro-slavery elements.
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An abolitionist named John Brown tried to start an armed slave revolt by seizing an arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virgina.
