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which word best describes congress handing of slavery prior to the dred scott decision?
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"Compromise" (or adjectivally, "compromising").
Why: In the decades before Dred Scott (1857) Congress repeatedly passed compromises and half-measures—Missouri Compromise (1820), Compromise of 1850 (including the Fugitive Slave Act), and the Kansas–Nebraska Act (1854) with popular sovereignty—to try to balance Northern and Southern interests and postpone a final national settlement on slavery. If you want a different emphatic nuance, alternatives are "avoidant" (Congress repeatedly deferred a definitive decision) or "sectional" (Congressional action reflected deep North–South divisions).
Why: In the decades before Dred Scott (1857) Congress repeatedly passed compromises and half-measures—Missouri Compromise (1820), Compromise of 1850 (including the Fugitive Slave Act), and the Kansas–Nebraska Act (1854) with popular sovereignty—to try to balance Northern and Southern interests and postpone a final national settlement on slavery. If you want a different emphatic nuance, alternatives are "avoidant" (Congress repeatedly deferred a definitive decision) or "sectional" (Congressional action reflected deep North–South divisions).
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