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How did the Missouri compromise contribute to the beginning of the civil war?

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The final attempted compromise would have restored the terms of the Missouri Compromise, which allowed slavery in new states South of the Missouri line.

It was this condition that Lincoln would not accept, and so the last attempt at compromise failed.

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