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The Missouri Compromise violated the constitution because blacks were supposed to be considered citizens. Because it was already in slave territory (Louisiana Territory), Missouri was made as a slave state, and Maine was made to be a free state so that the balance could stay 11/11. The big problem after the Missouri Compromise was figuring out what the status of slavery would be in the west. "Will slavery expand west?". It also led to the Bleeding Kansas massacre.

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Nat Turner and his 80 followers killed 60 white southerners to make a statement against slavery. The nation was forced to confront slavery, and southerners went through what is known as "white terror", which were strict laws against slaves (made to prevent things like Nat Turners Rebellion). This rebellion was one of the biggest steps that the slaves themselves took towards the civil war, as it inspired the Virginia slavery debate in 1831-32.

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The win of the Mexican-American war allowed more states to be added westward. Many of the states that were added were going to be slave states, which meant that slavery was only going to  spread. Northerners did not want this happening, so a whole new series of debates took place after this war. The biggest impact that the war had on American was that it doubled the size of the country, and the new land was undisputed to be free or slave.

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The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a free state and did not do anything to the remainder of the land that was won in the Mexican-American war.Slavery in territories was now determined by popular sovereignty, which was what the people wanted. This was an attempt by the government, once again, to kick the slavery "can" down the road.

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The new Fugitive Slave Act pressured the North and South to make a decision about the side of slavery they were on. Many Northerners were angry about this act because they were forced to return the slaves in their region, whether they were freed or not. A lot of people from the North believed that the government was forcing the spread of slavery because of how boldly biased it was. The North, in response, passed the Personal Liberty Laws which forbade the imprisonment of runaway slaves.

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The Kansas Nebraska act started when Stephen A Douglas wanted to make a transcontinental railroad through Kansas and Nebraska Territory. It would go through land in the Louisiana Purchase, which should have been free, but the south would not support the railroad. This act ended up repealing the Missouri Compromise which shattered the Democratic party, and allowed slavery in the original land from the Louisiana Purchase. The balance of power shifted across the land.

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The Dred Scott decision made the Northerners not trust the court anymore as they should complete control over slave power. Many abolitionists saw the decision as a way to stop debates about slavery in the territories. The dividing of the Southern and Northern states fromn this eventually led to the secession of the Southern States.