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What was the role of the Compromise leading up to the Civil War

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Slavery could be allowed in new Western Territories. Fugitive Slave Law allowed southerners to go into Northerner states and retrieve former slaves. The Compromise overturned the Missouri Compromise and left the overall issue of slavery unsettled.

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