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By the Missouri Compromise of 1820, slavery was illegal anywhere North of the parallel that marked Missouri's Southern border.

This kept the peace for thirty years, until California proved too big to fit the arrangement. A new Compromise was worked out, which did not last, and the issue was briefly put to the vote in Kansas, resulting in terrible bloodshed.

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