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∙ 11y agoAfter the Missouri Compromise of 1820, it was more-or-less balanced - anywhere North of that parallel would be free soil, and anywhere South was open to slavery.
After the Compromise of 1850, it became more difficult to create new slave-states, and Congress had to try to appease the South. This did not work in the end, and war was inevitable.
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∙ 11y agoMost slave states left the union. The "border" states that practiced slavery, but stayed in the union, probably realized it would be too difficult to fight off the North.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was proposed by Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, in order to create the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and to ensure that future settlers in those territories would have the authority to determine whether slavery would be permitted with these territories.
Because he would not allow any of the new territories to become slave-states.
The crisis over Missouri Compromise exposed the divisions of the country on the contentious issue of slavery. The line that literally divided the territories that would become states put the Union into a precarious balance that could easily tip in favor of the slave states.
1. Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state 2. Maine joins the Union as a free state, keeping the number of slaves equal. 3. Slavery prohibeted in any new territories or states formed in North-Missouris southern border.
Slave states.
the whigs did not want conquered territory to become slave states
Most slave states left the union. The "border" states that practiced slavery, but stayed in the union, probably realized it would be too difficult to fight off the North.
The Missouri Compromise was not 1850 but 1820. It settled the issue of slavery in the new territories acquired from France in the Louisiana Purchase. The Compromise of 1850 was also to do with slavery/freedom in new territories, this time the ones acquired from Mexico.
The dispute over if the states would enter the Union as free states or slave states.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was proposed by Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, in order to create the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and to ensure that future settlers in those territories would have the authority to determine whether slavery would be permitted with these territories.
Because he would not allow any of the new territories to become slave-states.
They were afraid that all acquired territories would become slave states.
maine and missouri missouri would enter the union as a slave state maine would enter the union as a free state kept the balance between free and slave states equal
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Lincoln wanted to preserve the union to protect and defend.
There were 23 states that fought on the side of the Union during the Civil War.