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  Congress agreed that slaves were prohibitited in the form Loisana Territory, except Missouri.
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  The issue of slavery came up in 1845 when the United States gained territory from Mexico.
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  He was held in wrongful in slavery.
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  Many people were unhappy with the compromise.
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  The fugitive slave act caused lots of problems amung the North and the South.
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  No one knew that Kansas, Nebraska was to be the last straw in dividing the country about the issue of slavery.
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  In 1856 there was a thinrd canidate who represented the Know Nothing Party named Millard Fillmore.
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  Stephen A. Douglas was running against Abraham Lincoln for the Senate seat by the Illinios legislature.
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  In 1859 John Brown attempted in a liberation movement among slaves in Harpers Ferry, Virginia elctrified the nation.