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☆☆☆☆☆The purpose of the Missouri Compromise was to end an argument about slavery in the new US territories. It was an attempt to keep a balance of slave states and free states and admitting new western states without having a war.
With anger.
They greatly resented being turned into unpaid slave-catchers, and this brought many new recruits to the cause of Abolitionism.
'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was written as a protest against the Act.
It drove the two sides further apart, and was a major cause of the Civil War.
lincoln won without a single southern electoral vote
They added former Mexican territory to the United States.
The Act allowed for the creation of new slave-states, if the local population voted for it.
A new territory, Kansas, would likely become a slave state.
A new territory, Kansas, would likely become a slave state
Northern and southern states
the moral nature of human beings
