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After 1854, the Missouri Compromise, which was the attempt to balance the number of free states and slave states between the Northern and Southern states of the United States, was relinquished and replaced by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was proposed by Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, in order to create the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and to ensure that future settlers in those territories would have the authority to determine whether slavery would be permitted with these territories.
The "Border States" were slave states.
California became a free state in 1850, ending the balance of free states and slave states. However, the slave states got a tougher fugitive slave law as a result of California's admission to the Union as a free state.
Missouri, Arkansas, Flordia, and Texas
After 1854, the Missouri Compromise, which was the attempt to balance the number of free states and slave states between the Northern and Southern states of the United States, was relinquished and replaced by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was proposed by Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, in order to create the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and to ensure that future settlers in those territories would have the authority to determine whether slavery would be permitted with these territories.
The Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854 enabled voters in the US Territories of Kansas and Nebraska vote as to whether be free or slave States once they entered the Union.
The "Border States" were slave states.
slave states
15 slave states and 19 free states during the American Civil War
Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850 sought to balance the free states and the slave states in balance. The Compromise lost its value with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
So the balance of slave to free states were equal in congress
Yes but its by votes. Or so they can make the slave states and free states equal by number like Missouri
they made an agreement. there was acertian degrees to slave states and free states. the nourth is the free states and the south is the slave states.