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Under the Fugative Slave Act, a person arrested as a runaway slave had almost no legal rights

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California was admitted to the Union as a free state. No slaves can be bought or sold at Washington D.C.A stronger fugative law.

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Then,late in 1849, Californina applied for admission to the Union as a free state.Northerners in Congress welcomed California with open arms ,but Southerners rejected California's request. Making California a free state,they warned,would upset the balance between slaves and free states.

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Southernes in the Congress strongly rejected Wilmot's amendment and maintaned that Congress had no right to decide where slaveholders could mark their property.

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Slaves continued to rebel by running away.this act was bad for the slave owners. Each and every slave owner saw their slave as a valuable piece of land. When the slaves left they were using more and more money.To the slaveholders the northerners were no better than bank robbers.

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Resolved the issue by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also drew a
line across the Lousiana Territory.

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The Missouri Compromise is an agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine was admitted asa a free state.

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The Missouri Compromise is an agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Misouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state.