Question #29406

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Feb 7, 2018

Following the Missouri Compromise, it became easy to "section" the country into "free" and "slave" States.

Explanation:

It is this mindset and division - primarily between more "Northern" states and the "Southern" ones - that created more division than unity and led to the War Between the States over the primacy of Federal Rule or States Rights.
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