… spread of slavery beyond boundaries set forth by the Missouri Compromise of 1820 …

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… to permit slavery, thereby repealing the Missouri Compromise, which allowed slavery in Missouri … Nebraska Act was passed, pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers poured into the territory … of the Act founded the anti-slavery Republican Party. The Democrats …

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