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The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820. It did not end the debate over slavery. Trouble started brewing when Texas wanted to be a state. One problem: there was no free state to accompany Texas into the Union. As the Missouri Compromise states that a slave ....

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.... live in a slave or free state. Still, others proclaimed that slavery should be banned completely in the land seized from Mexico. Calhoun said that the ban on slavery was unconstitutional. The constitution stated that slaveholders had the right to own property, which included slaves, since slaves weren’t human, according to the South. There were three candidates in the election of 1848: Lewis Cass Martin Van Buren and Zachary Taylor. Cass was representing the democrats and was a man who believed in Popular Sovernty. Van Buren was nominated by the Free-Soil Party. Taylor was a war hero, a General from the Mexican War. He was chosen to represe ....