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In addition to people in Kansas fighting violently Congress started fighting as well. Senator Charles Sumner used very strong language towards Stephen Douglas because Sumner believed that Kansas was made a slave state on purpose. Then a South Carolina Representative beat Sumner with a cane.

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Kansas was looked at as a disputed territory so the North and the south settled in it. They claimed it as theirs which became a problem when some "Border Ruffians" Raided and attacked Kansas in 1856.

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A man named Stephen A. Douglas had the idea of building a Midwestern railroad to California but he felt that the land west of Missouri needed to be divided into Kansas and Nebraska.

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The southerners and Northerners strongly disagreed over the Mexican cessions situation. The South believed that the Missouri compromise line belonged to the west. As you can imagine the Northerners did not have the same idea. This argument lasted for 3 years.

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The southerners became irritated by their slaves that the called "property" escaping to the North. So their was a law added which prohibited anyone from aiding or abiding runaway saves trying to go North. If this law was not followed it would go to imprisonment.

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A man named Henry Clay created a new compromise that worked for everyone. On January 21, 1850, he proposed that New Mexico and Utah could decide by themselves and that California would be a free state in the Union. Both the North and South were pleased by this new compromise.

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While the "Gag Rule' was among congress, slavery was out of discussion. That was until an amendment named The Wilmot Proviso was added by David Wilmot. He brought up the fact that slavery should never exist in any new state gained from the Mexican-American war.

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Many slaves escaped to the North after rebellions like Nat turners. When this happened people from the South view the escaped slaves as property while the people from North viewed them as robbers. This caused stress between the North and South.

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The Missouri compromise worked but after some time passed there was Abolition. Congress started to notice this so they applied the "Gag Rule". This rule stopped the talking about Abolition

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When the Missouri compromise happened the states Missouri and Main were added to the union. Missouri was a slave state and Main was a free state.