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It means that it forced enslaved people who had escapted to be returned to a slave state.
It means that it forced enslaved people who had escapted to be returned to a slave state.
It means that it expanded slavery to the northern free states.
It means that it expanded slavery to the northern free states.
It means that it upheld the efforts of the compromise to maintain an equal balance of free and slave states.
It means that it upheld the efforts of the compromise to maintain an equal balance of free and slave states.
It means that it reopened the debate over the border between free and slave states.
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The correct response to the statement "popular sovereignty undermining the Missouri Compromise" is:
It means that it reopened the debate over the border between free and slave states.
Popular sovereignty allowed the people in a territory to decide for themselves whether they would allow slavery, which undermined the Missouri Compromise's effort to maintain a balance between free and slave states by creating new conflicts and uncertainties regarding the status of slavery in new territories.
