How did Congress try to resolve the dispute between North and South over slavery?

 Congress tried to resolve the dispute by enacting the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which limited slavery. They also enacted the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which maintained balance between slave and free states

Explanation:

the civil war was a fulfillment and completion of the constitution, not a revolution against it. changes in culture and society surely affected political life. lincoln hoped to bring the north and south together after the war by healing the nationand making people lose their resentment.

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