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How did the the Compromise of 1850 fail to prevent tensions between the North and South?

o It made Texas responsible for their own prewar debt, angering southerners.
It used the Missouri Compromise a guide, which allowed all the territory won during the Mexican-American War to allow
enslavement, angering northerners.
It used popular sovereignty as the main method of deciding if a state allowed enslavement, leading to violence between
northerners and southerners.
It allowed the slave trade in Washington, DC, angering northerners.

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To Settle differences over slaverys expansion

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Answer:It used popular sovereignty as the main method of deciding if a state allowed enslavement, leading to violence betweennortherners and southerners.

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