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When Missouri requested to become a slave state, it threatened to tip the balance in Congress, so Maine was added to the Union to keep the balance.

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Created by Henry Clay the compromise Included
Adding California to the Union
The Fugitive Act
Allowed New Mexico and Utah to use popular sovereignty to choose whether to be slave states or not.
Set the boundaries of Texas
Stopped the slave trade in D.C.

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Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin told the story of Tom the slave and how he was constantly beaten and worked almost to death. It was meant to get support for the abolitionists.

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Introduced by Stephen Douglas it allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide on being a slave state or free based on popular sovereignty.
It abandoned the Missouri Compromise.
Pro-Slavery and Anit-Slavery rushed to the area to influence the vote.

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Dred Scott was a slave who was in a free territory and sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court but because he was owned he was not a real citizen so he lost his case to Sanford.

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John Brown was an Abolitionist who planned to raid a federal arsenal and arm slave for a revolt but he was stopped by the militia and found guilty so he was sentenced to death.

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After Lincoln was elected seven states succeeded from the Union and formed the Confederacy.

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The Union and the Confederacy finally turned to a full out war over Slavery.