Causes of the Civil War

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Why was it a problem when Missouri asked to become a slave state?

It would make the Senate unbalanced

What did the Missouri Compromise decide?

Missouri would be slave, Maine would be free, ban slavery in the northern half of the Louisiana Territory

What is one thing that that was decided by the Compromise of 1850?

Mexican Cession territories would vote, CA would be free, Fugitive Slave Law to catch runaways

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