Crittenden Compromise

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Crittenden Compromise
last-ditch effort to save Union
proposed extending Missouri line to California and establishing perminent slavery below the line, and no slavery above
unrepealable and unamendable
Lincoln and other northern politicians rejected compromise, and south's reaction was of fuelled fear of north-ruled country abolishing slavery

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