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- The Missouri Compromise lasted 34 years. It was nullified by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 which allowed slavery in all of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36۬°30’. Brought popular sovereignty.
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Missouri Compromise
- It admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It kept the balance between slave and free states 12/12. Missouri was the first state carved out of the Louisiana Purchase. No slavery would be allowed north of the 36۬°30’. This is significant because even in 1820, there was a sectional conflict that foreshadows the Civil War.
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Annexation of Texas
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Bleeding Kansas
After the passing of the Kansas and Nebraska Act in 1854, which repealed the compromise of 1820, anti-slave and slave supporters flocked to Kansas to cast their votes in the decision whether Kansas would be a slave or free state. Two opposing capitals were set up -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
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Harper’s Ferry (John Brown)
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Election of Abraham Lincoln
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South Carolina Secession
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Fort Sumter
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