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the words: compromise of 1850 , henry clay , louisiana purchase , missouri compromise , nebraska , stephen douglas , border state , free state , slave state , southern , ''bleeding kansas'' , ''free soilers "



there were a number of attempts by congress to settle the issue of slavery in the early to mid 1800s. one of these is the missouri compromise passed in that allowed missouri to enter the u. s. as a , but prohibited slavery above boundary of missouri , and forbade slavery to be part of any state created from lands gained in the thirty years later, there was the it added california as a , but allowed residents of the utah and new mexico territories to decide whether or not they wanted slavery. both of there were attempts by congress to calm slave .

state and free state arguments in the u. s. and in the u. s. government , but both were ultimately failures. in 1854 , another attempt was made to calm fears of an imbalance between 'free' and ' slave' states. illinois senator proposed a bill that became known as the kansas-nebraska act. it proposed that the territory be divide into two territories the nebraska territory and the kansas territory- and that settlers there be allowed to determine for themselves whether or not they wanted slavery to be allowed there. since both of these territories were north of missouri's southern border , the kansas-nebraska act effectively negated the

the effect it had on the u. s. was, devastating. sectional differences between free and slave states were once again awakened and inflamed. perhaps the worst example of this conflict occurred in the kansas itself. in the weeks before the elections there , pro-slavery
forces moved into the territory from missouri in a attempt to get slavery permitted there. these people clashed with abolitionist and in widespread violence. because of these conflicts , the territory earned the nickname of : around 100 people died there because of the pro/anti- slavery violence.