Antebellum Check In - Maria Alvarez | Biblioteka

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What was the main purpose of the Missouri Compromise?

Allow slavery in Maine and Missouri

Maintain a balance of free and slave states

Allow run-away slaves to return to their owners

Slavery would not be allowed in Missouri

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Slavery was permitted in the new state of California.

Slavery was outlawed below the 36°, 30° line

Runaway slaves had to be retuned to their owners

South Carolina seceeded from the Union

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Popular Sovereignty in Utah

Maine to enter the Union as a free state

Missouri to enter the Union as a free state

Gives slaves the right to sue their owners

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A slave was only a citizen only after they purchaed their freedom from the government.

A slave who lived on free soil for any length of time was free.

A slave was not a citizen, but rather the property of the slave owner.

A slave had the right to sue for freedom in the federal court.

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The Nebraska territory was split into two—Kansas to the west of Missouri and Nebraska to the north of Kansas.

Both Kansas and Nebraska were to be organized on the principle of popular sovereignty.

Northern politicians became more supportive of slavery.

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was repealed.