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How did admission of new states to the Union fuel the debate over slavery and states rights?
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How did admission of new states to the Union fuel the debate over slavery and states rights?

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It threatened to upset the balance between free states and slave states.
Both northerners and southerners hoped that the Missouri Compromise, 1820, had settled the issue of slavery
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