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Answer: Slavery was a point of contention in the United States since the country's founding. The disagreement intensified as the 1800s began. In 1820, the Missouri Compromise established a boundary that wouldn't allow new slave states above this line. Dred Scott had been taken by his owner to an area in which slavery had been made illegal because of the Missouri Compromise.
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Florida was NOT one of the first thirteen original colonies.
The federalists believed the U.S. would not survive unless the Constitution was passed
But because the statement is contradictory.