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The sectional crisis between north and south and the 19th century was marked by a series of pivotal events that intensified tensions over slavery and contributed the eventual outbreak of the civil war.
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Here are the three most important events and their roles in deepening this sectional divide.
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First, the missouri compromise in 1820.
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The missouri compromise was a legislative agreement that admitted missouri as a slave state and maine as a free state, maintaining the balance of power between free and slave states and the senate that also established.
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The 36 -degree 30 -minute line north of which slavery was prohibited in the louisiana territory except for missouri.
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The missouri compromise was a temporary solution to highlight the growing sectional divide over slavery.
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While it managed to maintain a balance for a time, it didn't address the underlying issue of slavery's expansion into new territories.
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The compromise set a precedent for future conflicts over the expansion of slavery and demonstrated that contentious nature of the issue foreshattering future disputes.
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Debates over slavery were central to the missouri compromises that directly addressed the question of whether new states and territories would permit slavery.
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The compromise reflected a deep -seated divisions between the north and south over the institution of slavery.
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The compromise of 1850.
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This was a series of legislative measures that aimed at resolving disputes related to the territories acquired during the mexican -american war.
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It included the admission of california as a free state, the establishment of territorial governments and the rest of the mexicans ' session, with no immediate restriction on slavery, the abolition of slave trade in washington, d .c., in the introduction of a stricter fugitive slave act.
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The compromise of 1850 attempted to address the sectional tensions, but had mixed results...