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Slavery Fueled State Admission Conflicts in Early Union
The passage traces the expansion of slavery in new and old states from 1792 to 1856, detailing Missouri and Arkansas as slave states, Ohio and Illinois as free states, the Missouri Compromise, the Kansas Nebraska conflicts, and the federal government’s enforcement of slaveholding power over new territories, highlighting the long battle between freedom and slavery in shaping the United States.
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