The line of the Missouri Compromise - North of that line, slavery was illegal.
The Compromise of 1850 made some new provisions about the territories acquired from Mexico, but this did not secure lasting agreement. That was why Stephen Douglas proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, allowing the people of each new state to vote whether to be slave or free.
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1850 - the Fugitive Slave Act, which was meant to show support for the legality of slavery, but which backfired on them, causing Harriet Beecher Stowe to write 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' as a protest. 1854 - the chance of new slave-states, if the people of each state were willing to vote for slavery.
1854 = charge of the light brigade - are you dumb?
100,00o muskets in 1854.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act also led to "Bleeding Kansas," a mini civil war that erupted in Kansas in 1856. Northerners and Southerners flooded Kansas in 1854 and 1855, determined to convert the future state to their view on slavery.
23 october 1854