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Why were U.S. political leaders unable to reach a lasting compromise over the issue of slavery?
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Why were U.S. political leaders unable to reach a lasting

compromise over the issue of slavery?

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Compromise failed in early 1861 because it would have required the Republican Party to repudiate its guiding principle: no extension of slavery into the western territories.

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