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In 1857, the Supreme Court issued a decision in the Dred Scott case. African Americans were not citizens and the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

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The gag rule kept slavery out of Congress for 10 years but then in 1846, President James Polk, sent a bill to Congress asking for funds for a War with Mexico. A bill called Wilmot Proviso was added. Southerners strongly opposed this amendment.

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The Fugitive Slaves from slavery was helped by sympathetic people in the North. Every Slave that was seen in the North that escaped made the Southerners mad and demanded that Congress to make a law to return slaves back.

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Abolitionist was not happy about the Missouri Compromise and called Northerners traitors. There was a powerful force that was building so it soon pushed the issue back into focus again, the Second Great Awaking. People in the 1800's, that were religious, promised that those who did the Lord's work, would be blessed.

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When Congress returned in 1820, to Washington. This situation has led to Maine wanting to to enter the union as a free states. It took weeks for Congress tried to find a way out of the deadlock over Missouri.