Missouri Compromise: Missouri (slave) , Maine (free), Kept peace for 40 years, 1820, 50/50 Balance in the Senate, Compromise of 1850: Texas (slave), California (free), Fugitive Slave Act, Only kind of kept the peace, North suspicious, 1850, Kansas Nebraska Act: Bleeding Kansas (violence), North immediately hates it, "Popular Sovereignty" (voting on slavery)  , John Brown and sons kill pro-slave protestors, 1854, Dred Scott Case: Supreme Court Case, 1857, Ruled that slaves and free blacks were NOT citizens, Placed property rights of slave owners over the liberty of slaves, Allowed southerners to take slaves into free states , Angered Abraham Lincoln enough that he runs for President,

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