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A Fire Bell in the Night

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How the Missouri Compromise came to be the law of the land in 1820.

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The legacy of the Missouri Compromise would extend into the next generation of Americans.

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The Missouri Compromise was undone by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which propelled the country toward the Civil War.

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