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allowed settlers of one certain territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a newly created state, making it a free or slave state.

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Stated that if your slave ran away or was stolen, you could track them down , and any person who was holding them in hiding would be severely punished.

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The South gained by making the Fugitive Slave Law stronger. Texas was given 10 million dollars to pay debt. And slave trade was prohibited in D.C

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With a debate between Cali being a slave state and a free-labor state, California was admitted as the 31st state (being a free-labor state) under the compromise of 1850.

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Slavery was permitted anywhere in the South at the time. Most Northern states were free states, including: The land North of Arkansas.

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Congress added in Missouri in as a slave state, And added in Maine in as a free state in order to compromise with the South's and North's wishes.

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The Missouri Compromise was a deal between the Northern and the Southern people. It settled political and slavery wise differences between them.