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for the next three years, congress debated what to about the slavery

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it kelp the slave problems out of congress for ten years. then in 1846 the Wilmot proviso (a proviso is a condition added to an agreement) stated that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist

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slaves trying to get to the free states so they could be free (slaves trying to escape from slavery)

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Missouri was turned into a state free state because the north could not have slave working go to the north if it did nothing could stop slave states from taking over everything

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the Missouri compromise was trying to keep the balance between slave states and free states so it wouldn't be unfair to the slave to free states