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The Compromise of 1850. While the Missouri Compromise stopped the debate in Congress for a while, the nation was still in turmoil over the issue of slavery. Abolitionists sent thousands of anti-slavery petitions to Washington D.C. Congress decided to avoid addressing those petitions in 1836. In 1831, Nat Turner staged a slave rebellion and more than 50 white people were killed. Fears of further uprisings led The Mexican Cession to stricter slave laws. Meanwhile, slaves continued to assert their right to freedom by running away. Some sympathetic Northerners began helping those slaves to freedom. Then in 1846, war with Mexico broke out, and the U.S. ultimately won the war. Congress now had to decide whether to allow slavery in the new land.
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