dmitted as a free state. There was some fear that, in the event of strong antislavery legislation, the Southern states might withdraw from the Union altogether. To pacify slave-state politicians, who would have objected to the imbalance created by adding another free state, the Fugitive Slave Act was passed. The Compromise of 1850 accomplished what it set out to do: it kept the nation united, but the solution was only temporary. Over the following decade the country\'s citizens became further divided over the issue of slavery. The rift would continue to grow until the nation itself divided.

A vocal conflict took a bloody turn for the worse in 1854, when the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, and put Cass’ idea of popular sovereignty into practice. While appearing to be

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