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Sumner attacked Brooks with cane and it broke. Douglass wanted Kansas a slave state. Scott said staying in wisconsin made him free. Brown wanted to give slaves weapons to fight against slavery.

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Before long, Kansas had two competing governments ;one for slavery and those against it. The struggle over slavery soon turned violent, border ruffians invaded Lawerence, and outrage in the North caused a man named John Brown to hack five men to death.

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An uproar was caused by Douglas wanting to build a railroad in California. He said it was up to the settlers wether to permit slavery or not; Northerners were haunted by slaves marching the plains in terrible weather.

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People in the North and South were unhappy with the Fugitive Slave Act; a person arrested as a runaway had almost no legal rights, when some slaves decided to stand their ground and fight. Northerners refusal to support the act infuriated slaveholders; they opposed slavery and defied the law.

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War & Expansion: Crash Course US History #17

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For the next three years, Congress dabated over the issues of slavery; Southerners wanted all of the Mexican Cession freely open to slavery while the North wanted all of it closed. Then eventually California decided to enter the Union as a free state which upset the Southerners and thrilled the Northerners. But the year ended over a deadlocked situation because this was an unequal representation of equal rights.

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It was declared by Henry Clay that Washington could have slaves but they could no longer be bought or sold there. Southerners were unhappy with this decision and even thinking of leaving the Union and war was talked of. Few Americans wanted to face these concequences, so in 1850, Clays plan was approved.

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President James Polk created a bill for funds to the war with Mexico, and a representative named David Wilmot added an ammendment to the bill known as the Wilmot Proviso. Slavery nor involuntary sevitude shall ever exist, and this was passed by the House but not by the Senate.

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Fugitive slaves like Nat Turner were running away and the northerners helped them. Slaveholders thought every time one ran away their property was vanishing, and demanded for a fugitive slave law.

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Unraveling the Compromise, John Quincey Adams believed the contest over slavery was over but the issue was brought to the open once again to the Second Great Awakening. In 1839, the gag rule prevented consideration of an antislavery proposal by J.Q.A, who was now a member of Congress.Many tried to control the movement of slaves afterward, by disgarding abolitionists papers.

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The Missouri Compromise was an agreement made by Congress that Missouri would be a slave state and Maine to be a free state to maintain power between slave and free states. They created an imaginary line of latitude at 36, 30 where any state emitted North of that line was free.