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Compromises of the 1800’s
Missouri
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise of 1820
• Missouri applied for admission as a slave state
• Maine applied as a free state
• Temporary solution that kept a balance of power in the Senate
• Slavery was then prohibited north (above) of the latitude 36°30’, which is the southern border of Missouri
Compromise of 1850
• California’s constitution made it a free state
• Passed the Fugitive Slave law, which required that runaway slaves be returned to owners
• Slave trade ended in Washington DC and owners could keep what they owned
• Texas could not annex NM
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
• “Popular sovereignty” would decide if a new state would be free or slave (i.e. Kansas and Nebraska were seeking statehood)
• Fighting occurred as each group tried to gain the popular vote (be in control)- “Bleeding Kansas”
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