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Congress has become increasingly involved in how to seperate the new states: free or slave and it has become a rising issue in other people's mind as well.
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The Missouri compromise was created as an agreement on how to divide the free and slave states.
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Missouri was admitted as a free state to the union, there were no other states admitted until 11 years after.
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Andrew Jackson was elected president, he promised to expand the states westward.
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The mexican government abolished slavery to lessen american influence on them.
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April, 1836 Texas gained its independance.
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The westward expansion carried slavery down into the Southwest, into Mississippi, Alabama, crossing the Mississippi River into Louisiana. Finally, by the 1840's, it was pouring into Texas.
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The fugitive slave law was added, making it a law to send the fugitive slaves from the north to back to the south. A second fugitive slave act followed this one tightening restrictions, these were used to prosecute blacks.
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The kansas Nebraska act was created which divided the states by the 40th parallel. Kansas went to the Southa nd Nebraska went to the north.
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The Dred Scott decision was handed down in 1857, which denied citizenship to free and enslaved blacks lessening their rights even more.