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The vast new territories ceded from Mexico invalidated the Missouri Compromise that had kept the peace for thirty years.

So a new compromise had to be worked out, and this one did not last.

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Yes - because the acquisition of California made it necessary to repeal the Missouri Compromise, and the new compromises failed to keep the peace.

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