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What did the Missouri Compromise attempted to do?

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The Missouri Compromise was criticized by many southerners because it established the principle that Congress could make laws regarding slavery; northerners, on the other hand, condemned it for acquiescing in the expansion of slavery (though only south of the compromise line). read more

Missouri petitioned to join the Union as a slave state, which would upset the carefully maintained balance of slave and free states in Congress. To settle this Congress settled on a compromise: Missouri would become a slave state, but in the future any state north of the southern border of Missouri would have to be free. read more

The Compromise of 1850 didn't resolve slavery with lands in the Louisiana Purchase. 1854 introduced senator Stephen Douglas a bill to set up a government for the Nebraska Territories. From Texas to the North Canada and from Missouri west to the Rockies. read more

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