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Some possible results of the growing sectional debate over slavery include humanitarian results. For example, when people treat others fairly, all will be educated and respected and slavery will stop growing.
It claimed that slavery was legal in every state of the Union, if the Constitution was interpreted in a certain way. This delighted the South, as much as it angered Northern Abolitionists, and raised the temperature of the whole slavery debate nationwide.
The admission of new states to the union and Dred Scott decision fueled the ongoing debate over slavery. (I got this off of ChaCha.com)
The Missouri Compromise temporarily settled the debate over slavery by allowing Missouri enter the Union as a slave state. Maine was allowed to enter the Union as a free state.
Not battle, but a debate. The Missouri Compromise of 1820.