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The bill aimed to outlaw slavery in territories taken from Mexico. The bill passed in the House of Representatives but was defeated in the Senate thus causing a division in Congress. Altoough, not a success it led to the formation of the Free Soil Party.
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This Compromise was to try and please both the North and South. The way it tried to please the North was, admitting California as a free state. And in the South , Congress would not pass laws regarding slavery for the rest of the territories won from Mexico, and Congress would pass a law to help slaveholders capture their runaway slaves.
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Problems between the North and South with the issue of slavery in territories brought to a bloodshed to the West. which later led to Popular Sovertiy.
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Bleeding Kansas was caused by an election for anit and proslavery voters. The main leader or motivater for abolitionists was John Brown.
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A rulnig that people of Africa descent brough into the USA and held as slaves were not protected by constitution and were not US citizen!
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A attepmt by white abolistionists John Brown to start an armed slave revolt however was deafeated by the US army.
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Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 – March 11, 1874) was an American politician and senator from Massachusetts. An academic lawyer and a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the United States Senate during the American Civil War and Reconstruction, working to punish the ex-Confederates and guarantee equal rights to the Freedmen.
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the nation ahd been divided throghout the 1850s whithin few monts of the elction seven states responded with a seccion
