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    Political compromise and conflict

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    The Compromise of 1850 attempted to maintain this balance, but tensions escalated with the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), which allowed popular sovereignty and led to violent clashes in Bleeding Kansas.
    OCR · Period Study: The Making of America, 1789–1900

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