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Missouri Compromise
-North vs South in heated debates over slavery
-Henery Clay resolves conflict (great compromiser)
-Maintained balance between slave and free states
-Missouri Compromise Line 36 30' -
Compromise of 1850
-Congress had many heated debates
-the new territories won from Mexico would be admitted as slave states or free states
-Henery Clay
-California would be free
-New Mexico would be unrestricted
