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How could adding a new state to the Union add to the conflict over slavery?
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How could adding a new state to the Union add to the conflict over slavery?

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It would be a conflict because they would have to decide whether that state would be a slave state or a free state. And both sides were not willing to compromise because the power balance in congress would be broken depending on that state.
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