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Why didn't southern states want to allow Nebraska territory to be admitted as a state?


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The southern states' representatives in Congress were in no hurry to permit a Nebraska territory because the land lay north of the 36°30' parallel — where slavery had been outlawed by the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

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