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this bill aimed to outlaw slavery in terriotories taken from Mexico. the bill passed in the House of Representatives but was defeated in the senate thus causing a division in Congress. Although, not a success it led to the formation of the Free Soil Party.
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some people celebrated the compromise, thinking it would save the Union but it did not bring peace. The compromise was a series of laws that settled the disagreement of free states and slave states.
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the north and the south, the issue of slavery is the territories brought bloodshed to the west.
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