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Admitting Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state; banned slavery north of 36, 30;

Benefited: South

Significance: Temporary solution that postponed conflict

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Belief that the U.S. was defeated to expand westward.

Benefited: South, with hopes of expanding slavery.

Significance: Fueled tension over slavery in new territories.

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U.S. gained territories like California and New Mexico.

Benefited: South, with potential new slave states.

Significance: Increase sectional tensions.

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Economic and political differences between North and South.

Benefited: Neither; deepened divisions.

Significance: Made compromise increasingly difficult.

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California admitted as a free state; stronger Fugitive Slave Act.

Benefited: Both; North got California, South got stricter slave laws.

Significance: Temporary peace but increased abolitionist anger.

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Repealed Missouri Compromise, Allowing popular sovereignty.

Benefited: South, opened territories to slavery.

Significance: Increased tensions, led to Bleeding Kansas

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Allowed territories to vote on slavery.

Benefited: South, potential expansion of slavery.

Significance: Led to violent conflicts like Bleeding Kansas.

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Failed attempt to start a slave rebellion at Harpers ferry.

Benefited: Neither; increased Southern fears.

Significance: Heightened tensions over abolitionism.

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Confederate attack on Union fort, starting the Civil War.

Benefited: South, showing that they are ready for war

Significance: Officially began the Civil War.

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Declared African American not citizens; Congress couldn’t ban slavery.

Benefited: South, protected slaveholders’ rights.

Significance: Angered the North, worsening sectional conflict.

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Lincoln's anti-slavery expansion stance led Southern states to secede.

Benefited: North, but pushed the South toward secession.

Significance: Marked the end of compromise.