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Key Legislation on the Issue of Slavery
-How the Union repeatedly tried not to get a divorce
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Missouri Compromise (1820)
• Maine admitted as free state• Missouri admitted as a slave
– Preserves sectional balance in the senate b/w slave states and free states
• Louisiana Territory divided in ½ @ the 36”30’– North of the line is free– South of the line is slave
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Wilmont Proviso (1846)
• After war w/ Mexico & Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo– California, Utah, New Mexico are closed
to slavery forever
• Argument b/w free-soilers and slave owners– Free-soilers do not own slaves, farm,
and are against the institution of slavery
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Compromise of 1850
• California admitted to the Union as a free state
• Utah and New Mexico territories decide about slavery
• Sale of slaves banned in D.C.• Fugitive Slave Act required people in
free states to help capture and return escaped slaves
• Establishes Popular Sovereignty
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Popular Sovereignty
• The right of residents of a territory to vote for or against slavery when becoming a state.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
• Divides territory in ½– Nebraska to the North– Kansas to the South
• Repeals the Missouri Compromise• Tests the policy of popular
sovereignty– Violence erupts– People are murdered– Nicknamed “Bleeding Kansas