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What were the most fundamental issues causing the sectional crisis and threatening to split the union in 1850?
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What were the most fundamental issues causing the sectional crisis and threatening to split the union in 1850?

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The most fundamental issue causing the sectional crisis and threatened to split the Union in 1850 was slavery, specifically, the Missouri Compromise of 1820. The Missouri Compromise admits that Missouri is a slave state and Maine is a free state.
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