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Stephen Douglas was instrumental to the Compromise taking place, a bill which reduced sectional conflict between slave- and free-states temporarily by helping redefine the status of different territories acquired in a previous war. However, he then opened the topic of slavery back up a few years later with a new act which opened some territories to slavery.

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