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Evaluate the relative importance of political events and issues that divided the nation and led to civil war, including the compromises reached to maintain the balance of free and slave states, the abolitionist movement, the Dred Scott case, conflicting views on states’ rights and federal authority, the emergence of the Republican Party, and the formation of the Confederate States of America.

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1. Missouri Compromise of 1820: agreement calling for the admission of Missouri as a slave state and and Maine as a free state, and banning slavery in the Louisiana Purchase territory north  of the thirty six thirty latitude.
2. Henry Clay: United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states.
3. Ulysses S. Grant: commander of the union armies in the American Civil War.
4. Confederacy: the south during the civil war
5. Union: the north during the civil war

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P: Two people are disagreeing between something
I: There is someone trying to separate them, as if he is the ¨border¨
C; The image is saying the the north & south are in disagreement, and the man is the states in between trying to separate them.

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The United States became divided due to the decision of free or slave states. To preserve the balance of power in congress, the compromise of 1820 was passed to admit Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. A few things that caused the civil war was manufacturing, division between states, and debates between the north and south.